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Nature 410, 406 (22 March 2001) | doi:10.1038/35068711

Favoured in a foreign land

One small group of women seems to escape the sexual discrimination that blights Japan's research system — foreigners. "Japan can be a lot more gender-neutral than people would think," says Kathleen Rockland, an American neuroscientist who one year ago was appointed as a team leader at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Wako.