On Dec 8, 10:08 am, "Vince O'Sullivan" <[email protected]> wrote: > > The same nonsense was being spoken oven a hundred years ago when women > were first admitted to medical training schools. It's taken over a > century but now women now form the majority of medical students in > many medical schools in the UK and US. > Look at mathematics. We're far from the days when Sophie Germain had to work under a pseudonym to be taken seriously, or where David Hilbert had to plead Emmy Noether's case for a professorship at Gottingen saying "Gentlemen, this is not a bathhouse." Still, there is discrimination even now. Look at Dusa McDuff's story in The Pleasures of Counting, by T. W. Korner.
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