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Sexual harassment is pervasive in US physics programmes

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-01303-6

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  • Correction 24 April 2019: This story has been corrected to state that the undergraduate survey did not examine levels of harassment specific to people with non-binary gender identities.

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