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How to get more women in science, with Athene Donald

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The Importance of Gendering in Science

In our schools, I think we need to make it much clearer that in the classroom, we have to do less gendering, if you like. We are deterring boys from doing certain subjects. If you look at who's studying English at university, it's massively female. Psychology is another one, which is overwhelmingly female. The messaging that children receive is that there are boys, so just a girls subject. So everywhere you look, you've got to try and eradicate it.

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