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Originally Posted by SpeedoGuy I'm dismayed whenever academic or scientific achievements are celebrated mainly due to gender. I'd prefer that gender distinctions remain irrelevant. |
In an ideal world this would be the case, but there are too many people with attitudes like that former president of Harvard (the one who thought "innate differences explain why fewer women than men succeed in math and science careers", when actually, in my opinion it is attitudes like that that explains why!

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I would like to see a time in which academic and scientific achievements are celebrated regardless of gender, and people would have an attitude that women can do these things just as well as men can. Until then, articles like this one will work to counter the people who don't think women can be as successful.