Susan Baranoff

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Women were not allowed to work in the observatory at night, told, “You’re likely to get raped up there.” Calendars featuring topless women hung on the doors of engineering labs. One young woman reported that a professor had invited her to his home and tried to have sex with her, offering that she could use his wife’s diaphragm to avoid getting pregnant.
The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins and the Fight for Women in Science
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