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Commentary
Nature 442, 133-136 (13 July 2006) | doi:10.1038/442133a; Published online 12 July 2006
Does gender matter?
Ben A. Barres1
- Ben A. Barres is at Stanford University School ofMedicine, Department of Neurobiology, Fairchild Building Room D235, 299 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305-5125, USA
Email: barres@stanford.edu
Abstract
The suggestion that women are not advancing in science because of innate inability is being taken seriously by some high-profile academics. Ben A. Barres explains what is wrong with the hypothesis.
When I was 14 years old, I had an unusually talented maths teacher. One day after school, I excitedly pointed him out to my mother.
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