“Given how prevalent women are in the history department, you’d have to try really hard to come up with a roster of speakers that looks like that,” Priya Satia, a Stanford history professor and the head of the department’s diversity committee, said on Friday.
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Some fields are notoriously male-dominated, like science and technology, she said, but history is different. “There are a healthy amount of women,” she said.
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