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...Benjamin Franklin...
Professor of Physics Melissa Franklin describes the physics department at Harvard with two words: “arrogant and rough...
...Franklin says she has come to accept that some of her colleagues strive to project this tough image. “That’s sort of the way people like it,” she says...
...It’s] no longer people saying things like, ‘You shouldn’t be in physics.’ It’s more the feeling you get: Does this person think you’re smart or not?” Franklin says. “Eventually you spend all your time thinking about that...
...Franklin says the competitive atmosphere fostered in science departments by their mostly male faculty members exacerbates this lack of confidence in women. “The problem is that people don’t know what it feels like to be a minority in a field and they can’t really understand,” Franklin says...