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Meghan,
thanks so much for posting about the importance of female mentorship.
I'm no physicist (anymore) but with many friends plus a mom in science,
I am especially sensitive to the need for and frequent lack of XX
mentorship in these disciplines. We've all heard reports that Americans
lag behind in the hard sciences generally—but less reported is the fact
that women rarely take on the quant-heavy jobs that do exist, or that
tenured female science and engineering faculty are almost nonexistent.
Then there are the other, real disadvantages talked about in the
Fisman/NBER report.
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