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> But this action of taking down a big part of his life's work is a way of hitting him right in his legacy. This is something I really didn't need to read on t

• Steuard 12y ago
  Just for context, I'm a physics professor myself. And the thing that gets me seeing red, entirely too often, is watching my brilliant female students drift away from the field where they have the potential to contribute so much. Not for any specific or well defined reason, just because they don't really feel comfortable there. It always looks perfectly reasonable on a case by case basis, but there's an unmistakable pattern in the whole. Math and the other sciences don't suffer from this as much these days: folks drift away there, too, but the gender disparity isn't as great. Among the natural sciences, it's just physics that sticks out.[0] So yeah, right in his legacy. I'm actually pretty happy to see punishments with teeth for guys whose actions perpetuate the situation. [0] To the extent that computer science is a math/science subject, it's worth noting that CS has plummeted down to near-physics levels of gender disparity in recent years. I think it's very likely that similar cultural issues are at work.
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