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History of Feminism

KT2000

(20,577 posts)

2. high school and college

Reply to YoungDemCA (Original post)

Sat Jan 24, 2015, 08:05 PM

Jan 2015

for my niece meant putting up with teachers who told her she would not make it in her chosen field. She graduated with a BS in physics, magna cum laude.
She is currently working in IT and until a guy works with her he assumes she doesn't know what she is doing - then they back-off with the condescending attitude.
It is on-going for her.

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New study finds that "genius" fields of work are male-dominated [View all] YoungDemCA Jan 2015 OP

I had read a different article about this ismnotwasm Jan 2015 #1

high school and college KT2000 Jan 2015 #2