Gender matters: Cures for bias

As I prepared a poster nearly 20 years ago to attract graduate students to the Drexel University physics department, I realized that we had many female graduate students. So I asked a few why, since we did not treat them any differently, as far as I was aware. They said, “That’s why.”When giving a talk at another department, I always ask to meet students with no faculty present, a trick I learned from biophysicist and Nobel Prize winner Max...