I remember hearing Richard Feynman saying something that his family believed his sister wouldn't be able to do math, so they tried to steer her towards something else. In the end she did get into astrophysics. It's a tough world, and change is slow, since "it's taken 55 years for a woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics" as Marina Milner-Bolotin suggests.
I think it's good that we are moving towards a society where every individual can pursue their dreams, regardless of gender or other insignificant differences. Science, as an enterprise needs all the brain power it can get. Especially when it comes to physics, discovering the universe should be available the everyone.
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