@svavar @gutenberg_org Well yes. Like missing out on a female Gauss, and on a female Einsteinhttps://www.themarginalian.org/2017/02/22/sophie-germain-gauss/https://arstechnica.com/science/2015/05/the-female-mathematician-who-changed-the-course-of-physics-but-couldnt-get-a-job/> At one meeting of the faculty senate, frustrated again in his attempts to get Noether a job, he [David Hilbert] famously remarked, “I do not see that the sex of a candidate is an argument against her admission as Privatdozent. After all, we are a university, not a bathing establishment.”
