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Nature 438, 559 (1 December 2005) | doi:10.1038/438559c; Published online 30 November 2005
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Evaluation bias hits women who aren't twice as good
Marlene Zuk1 & Gunilla Rosenqvist2
- Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA
- Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway
In your Editorial "All things equal" (Nature 437, 296; 2005) and Special Report "Small steps towards campus child care" (Nature, 446–447; 2005), much was made of the need for women scientists to have access to good child care if they are to succeed. However, this recent attention to child care in the scientific workplace merely addresses a symptom, rather than a cause, of under-representation of women in science.
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