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• ‟ Throughout my working life, I've been either one of very few women or the most senior woman in the place.

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• ‟ There are some countries where there is not an issue with women in physics. Malaysia, for example, has physics departments where 60 per cent of undergraduates are female, and France and Italy are strong, too. It is not about ability but more about what the culture says is appropriate.

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• ‟ I'm one of the few women in science. I have pioneered that. One of the things I worry about is what that pioneering has done to me. I have had to fight quite hard most of the way through life.

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• ‟ Women of my generation who've stayed in science have done it by playing the men at their own game.

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• ‟ My generation was the turning point. Women older than us didn't expect to have jobs or careers; those younger did. But we were where it was changing - which is interesting but uncomfortable.

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