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The Oxford Dictionary defines this as: The practice of making only a perfunctory or symbolic effort to do a particular thing, especially by recruiting a small number of people from under-represented groups in order to give the appearance of sexual or racial equality within a workforce.

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Unfortunately, this happens a lot. Said Voltaire of Emilie du Chatelet (physicist and mathematician), “She was a great man whose only fault was being a woman.”

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“The main stumbling block in the way of any progress is and always has been unimpeachable tradition.”
~ Chien-Shiung Wu

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STEM women’s careers suffer disproportionately from taking family leave. Many fathers do not take paternity leave even where it is available.

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Why is it that Marie Curie is almost always the one person that is brought up over and over when talking about women in STEM?

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Allies, the ones who are actively engaged, are so important.