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It has been a good/bad week for women in physics

It has been a good/bad week for women in physics

2 October 2018

At last, a third Nobel, but it has been a decidedly mixed week for female physicists
Jess Wade giving a lecture

It is 2018, so why are we still debating whether women can do physics?

1 October 2018

A talk by a physicist at CERN suggesting that women aren’t as good as men at physics has sparked outrage. I was there, and people are right to be offended, says Jess Wade

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