Quitting academic physics was probably the smartest move I've ever made, even though I miss it a lot now and then. Here, more succinctly than I have even bothered to write, Phil G. explains why: "With Occam's Razor, we should not need to bring in the FBI to solve the mystery of why there are more men than women who have chosen to stick with the choice that they made at age 18 to be a professor of science or mathematics."
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