Another "Freak" Equisetum
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Equisetum
posts are held by men. It isn’t always easy for young women to have social confidence necessary to not only engage but stand out in their respective scientific communities and the competition for faculty positions is stiff. That being said, I think a lot has changed for the better in the last 20 years that I have been in science and the climate is still improving. A second challenge that women ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Fern Journal
سال: 1919
ISSN: 0002-8444
DOI: 10.2307/1544159