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Advancing women scientists: the immunology experience

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Immunology is an attractive career for young female scientists. Nonetheless, appropriate representation and advancement is an issue that dogs all female scientists and the administrators who evaluate and promote their careers1,2. Comments by Harvard's president earlier this year downplayed these difficulties, yet his new $50 million initiative is aimed at assuring recruitment and retention of women scientists.

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  1. Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, H3G 1A4, Quebec, Canada

    Marianna M Newkirk

  2. Department of Carcinogenesis, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center–Science Park, Smithville, 78957, Texas, USA

    Ellen Richie

  3. United States Department of Agriculture, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Animal & Natural Resources Institute, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, 20705, Maryland, USA

    Joan K Lunney

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