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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just finished The Exceptions.  I really enjoyed it, but it gave me a lot to think about.  I started my STEM career in 1999, right when the book ends, as a naive 18yo who didn't think there would be any barriers to women succeeding in a STEM career.  I ended up leaving science after a PhD in a prestigious lab and a million little slights.  I've now moved to another STEM-adjacent field with few women and am again feeling like this is harder than it should be, though the slights are subtle and sometimes feel like they're all in my head, though I don't think they are. So much to think about.  I feel like Nancy Hopkins in 1992-94 and just need to find a tape measure.[/quote]
The book is the backstory to this news article covering MIT's admission in 1999 of pervasive discrimination against women professors in science: [url]https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/23/us/mit-admits-discrimination-against-female-professors.html[/url]

The book tells the story at MIT, but it was really the same across academia.  [/quote]

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