The State of Science. Marc Zimmer

we may have turned the corner, “as long as we encourage everyone—it doesn’t matter the color, gender; everyone who wants to do science, we encourage them to do it—we are going to see Nobel Prizes coming from all these different groups. Women will be very successful.”^[61] Women perhaps, but I am not convinced that people of color will be fairly represented among STEM Nobel laureates in the next 10–20 years. Unfortunately the systemic, societal, economic, and educational (K–12) differences are too large and too entrenched to expect parity in the next two decades.

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