#GAReads | The trouble with girls: obstacles to women’s success in medicine and research
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“The trouble with girls: obstacles to women’s success in medicine and research”:
The German Cancer Research Center has taken perhaps the biggest step: this year it hid the identities of all authors who applied to speak at its conference, leaving only one basis for judging entries: the merit of the work. The result? A whopping 82% of invited speakers at the October gathering were women.