How to be a science girl in a Barbie world

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By Eve AndrewsDec 17, 2014, 3:12 pm22 pts
I have been thinking a lot about women and science — specifically, why more of the former aren’t working in the latter, and what can be done to change that. Why does this matter? In short, diversity in science is a very good thing. In 2004, economist Scott Page co-authored a case study in the Proceedings of…

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