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Why does Physicist Barbie want to wear pants?

If “femininity” and “physicist” cannot coexist even in Barbieland, how are we ever to support their coexistence in the real world, , the Ann S. Bowers Associate Professor of physics in the 鶹Ƶ and 鶹Ƶ, .

“Often, women reject what is stereotypically feminine as they embrace their identities as physicists,” . “Whether implicitly or explicitly, they seek to fit in to the existing physics culture, which is overwhelmingly masculine. They wear pants.”

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