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Marriage and Fertility in Academic Life

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An analysis of a sample of entries in the 1969 edition of Who's Who, suggests that male arts specialists are nearly five times as likely as scientists to remain single.

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HUDSON, L., JACOT, B. Marriage and Fertility in Academic Life. Nature 229, 531–532 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/229531a0

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