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Sexism is still a problem for German research

The country is a world leader in scientific research, but falls behind when it comes to diversity in science.
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  1. Denise Hruby

    1. Denise Hruby is a writer and editor in Austria.

Half-way through her interview, molecular cell biologist Anne Wuttke retired to a vacant room. Her five-month-old son Tobias was hungry, so the early-career scientist turned her back to the glass wall to breastfeed him. Her interviewers — scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, where she was applying for a postdoctoral researcher position — had to wait. “It was my second child, so I was more relaxed about taking control of the situation and doing it in front of them,” she says.

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Nature 567, S60-S62 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00919-y

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