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Transgender DMS Alumni Publishes on Treatment of Women in Science

Posted by Andrea.

Ben Barres used to be a woman, and at the age of 42, underwent a sex change. He recalls another scienteist who was unaware of his sex change saying, “Ben Barres gave a great seminar today, but then his work is much better than his sister’s.” It just goes to show that in today’s society, many people (probably subconsiously) associate men with doing great work and females doing mediocre work, even if the work is exactly the same!

Read his article here:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/07/13/SCIENCE.TMP

  
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2 Responses to “Transgender DMS Alumni Publishes on Treatment of Women in Science”

  1. Nathaniel Says:
    July 19th, 2006 at 5:39 pm Using OmniWeb OmniWeb on Mac OS Mac OS X

    That really is a marvelous quote.

  2. Nathaniel Says:
    July 19th, 2006 at 5:56 pm Using OmniWeb OmniWeb on Mac OS Mac OS X

    Oh, and the box that was under your desk is a little present so you can be ready the next time you have a guy over for dinner. :)

    Or the first you have a guy over for dinner.

    Or the next time you just have a friend over for dinner.

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