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6 Closing Discussion
Pages 22-23

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... Sara Raju found that many articles focus on gender and ASME noted that SWE just celebrated its 60th annineutrality rather than gender inclusiveness. She and her col- versary, with the theme "Success on our own terms." CEO leagues reported that, in addition to "feminine" and "mascu- Betty Shanahan wanted to encourage female engineers to line" words, there are neutral words.
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... showed that it was not. When the analysts Referring to the earlier comments on gender neutral- changed the definition for success in identifying and solvity, Romila Singh commented that when people talk about ing problems in a timely fashion, the metric revealed more "gender neutral," it is really a code word for the modern successful women.
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