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Oh, come on.

There have been Barbie doctor dolls and astronaut dolls since at least the 80s.

That is besides the point. The point is the constant drilling of this topic in every form, painting the woman as oppressed superheroes and males as privileged oppressors. This with the goal of getting more people into a debased field while salaries and family-work balance keep getting worse.

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You seem to be projecting a lot on to the article that wasn’t actually there.

I would question why you feel the need to do that.

> painting the woman as oppressed superheroes and males as privileged oppressors

Which part of article is painting women as oppressed and which one even mentions men?

And also, the amount of scientists is limited by open positions. There is literally no need for anyone to higher up supplies of those, you have dozens of PhDs for every post doc position.

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