garner success and esteem only in spite of the fact that she is a woman. A patriarchal educational system will tolerate token women scientists and engineers as long as they are the exception. Public schools teachers, if given enough administrative incentive, have recently begun to self-consciously attend to the manner in which they teach math and science to their charges. Do they ask boys science questions more than they ask girls the same questions? Do they favor girls' responses to literature questions? Grants have been awarded to study teacher behavior in this setting; however, imagine how
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