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Such a view is supported by Research Associate in Physics Gerhard Sonnert, a sociologist who published a 1995 book based on his extensive study on the factors keeping women out of the natural sciences...
...Initial changes can be rapid. Now we have to deal with more subtle things—and those are harder to deal with because they cannot be legislated,” Sonnert says...
...Sonnert and Holton, on the contrary, don’t believe that women actually learn differently than men. In their studies, they observed that smaller factors—like less financial support from their families—cumulatively add up to make it more difficult for women to successfully pursue careers in science...
...theory's most interesting applications, Sonnert said, is its impact on women and minorities, who appear to be detached from the world of science not because of a lack of ability but because "to women and minorities, the image of science is an ivory tower pursuit that has nothing to do with real life...
...need to explore this possibility was a "major premise" behind the working group, Sonnert said...