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Claudia de Rham, “The Pull of the Stars” (Open Agenda, 2021)

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Is There a Relationship Between Theoretical Physics and Women?

The culture within theoretical physics tends to be aggressive. There is a relationship between attitudes that one encounters in a standard physic seminar and the fact that a statistically high proportion of the theoretical physicists who are involved are men. In my experience, that's less present when i'm working with more, with more woman. It's a little bit cottural as well. What the tone? And it's e it can't be thate a given department, is t. The tone is settled by a few people, just one or two. And then it becomes very aggressive. And the students coming out of that are very aggressive. Was in all, the environment is set up in a very different way

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