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What makes the environment chilly?

Each woman reacts differently, but some may be made uneasy by conditions such as these:

Each is just a little issue, but the cumulative effect can be overwhelming.


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``However, the lack of social and professional connections available to most women in academic science and engineering departments, in concert with overt and covert gender bias as well as differences in socialization, creates special and unique problems for women."
H. Etzkowitz, C. Kemelgor, M. Neuschatz, B. Uzzi


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``I have always believed that contemporary gender discrimination within universities is part reality and part perception. True, but I now understand that reality is by far the greater part of the balance."
Charles M. Vest, president of MIT

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Dianne O'Leary
1999-06-25