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Cole, Jonathan R. (John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University)
Columbia University sociologist Jonathan Cole credits his mother for the reference to Gray's "Elegy" which provides the book's charming title (pun intended) and its leitmotif: while women scientists were clearly discriminated against in the past, the academic community now "distributes its resources and rewards in an equitable fashion, " though the results show some puzzling anomalies. Where residual inequality persists, without doubt, is in r...