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But all too often, women were sexually harassed with impunity. Female scientists and waitresses, cheerleaders, executives, and factory workers had to smile past gropes, leers, or unwelcome advances to get the next tip, paycheck, or raise.
“Academic job interviews can be just as exhausting, long winded, and soul crushing as Elsie perceives them to be. The feuds within disciplines, just as petty. The power mentors have over their mentees, just as absolute.”
― Love, Theoretically
― Love, Theoretically
“Academia is so hierarchical, you know? There are all these people who have power over you, who are supposed to guide you and help you become the best possible scientist, but . . . sometimes they don’t know what’s best. Sometimes they don’t care. Sometimes they have their own agenda.”
― Love, Theoretically
― Love, Theoretically
“Seharusnya kamu tidak lagi berpikir bahwa perempuan dan laki-laki itu berbeda. Apa yang bisa dilakukan laki-laki, bisa dilakukan perempuan, begitu juga sebaliknya. Hanya satu yang kami tidak bisa, melahirkan dan menyusui.
Om Vincen”
― Perempuan yang Menangis kepada Bulan Hitam
Om Vincen”
― Perempuan yang Menangis kepada Bulan Hitam
“My dreams of physics academia always entailed me as a full-time researcher, a blackboard, and long hours spent pondering the theories on the equatorial sections of Schwarzschild wormholes.”
― Love, Theoretically
― Love, Theoretically
“STEM academia is 98 percent politics and 1 percent science (the rest, I suspect, “I Should Be Writing” memes).”
― Love, Theoretically
― Love, Theoretically
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