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The Importance of Self-Confidence
Once you get out of the education system, there are still many, many roadblocks that you write about. And some of these can be quite subtle and insidious. The idea that a woman who's done most of the work isn't the first author on a paper, for instance, isn't sent to a conference. Or if she is sent to aconference, she gets more hostility from the audience. That's something that can be very bad for self-confidence.