The idea of gender—not experience, initiative, work-ethic—but gender preventing qualified individuals from pursuing ambitious goals is incredulous. In the international school I was raised in, success basically came hand-in-hand with merit and hard work—as it should be. Ambitious girls took advanced math courses, led entrepreneurial clubs, and participated in scientific research because they wanted to—sometimes in greater numbers than boys.
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