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Sometimes there just isn’t enough money in the piggy bank.

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Women are half of the population but hold only about a quarter of the science and engineering jobs in the US. As well, despite women receiving roughly half of the PhDs, they only hold less than a quarter of professorships.

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“I didn’t succumb to the stereotype that science wasn’t for girls.”
~ Sally Ride

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Although there is still much work to be done, things are better than they used to be. For this, we owe a huge thanks to the trailblazing efforts of many women of STEM.

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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.”