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Women in Physics, 2000

JUN 01, 2000
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Rachel Ivie
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Katie Stowe
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In physics, women show greater representation at all levels, from high school physics to college and university faculty. During the 1990s, the numbers of women taking high school physics, earning physics degrees, and serving on physics faculties steadily increased.

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