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Nature 400, 112 (8 July 1999) | doi:10.1038/21996

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The Science Section of the Women's Congress was held at the Small Hall in the Westminster Town Hall on Thursday, June 29 .... The subject of research work was discussed, and stress was laid upon the fact that, inasmuch as the majority of students who take up science do so either as an avenue to a degree or with the idea of earning a livelihood by teaching later on, their training was as a rule insufficient and quite inadequate to permit them to undertake independent original work; whilst on the other hand the demands upon their time made by teaching was so great as to leave practically no leisure for higher work, even when they were qualified to do it.