Reflecting on Fifty Years of Progress for Women in Science

Like young women today, 50 years ago I too assumed that gender discrimination in science was a thing of the past. Girls who grew up in America in the Sputnik era, as I did, were encouraged to become scientists. By 1964, when I graduated from college with a major in biology, I thought it entirely pos...

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Main Author: Hopkins, Nancy H. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., 2015-04-22T20:43:10Z.
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