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The status of women in the professions

AUG 01, 1960
Lise Meitner

In trying to tell you about the history of professions for women, I shall deal mainly with the problems of academically trained women because this is likely to interest you most, and is certainly the aspect most familiar to me. Let me start, however, with a few remarks about women’s work in general.

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Lise Meitner, Cambridge, England.

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Volume 13, Number 8

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