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This was super interesting to read. I love all the detail you provided. And I especially like how you addressed the lack of diversity in the past and how you aim and work towards a more diverse future.

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Thank you! I really appreciate your feedback!

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So glad you started a new, diverse, line. But I bet there were many women who were not academically trained but were taught in the field.

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I would imagine so, especially among research assistants working in the field. Unfortunately I was unable to find records on them. It would be amazing if a historian could dig deeper. I'm sure they are much more skilled than I in finding such records.

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This is interesting, but I frankly recoil over the notion of training. What are we, dogs? I have a doctorate too, and I'd hate to think that I needed to be trained to receive it. I prefer to think of it as institutional ratification that I was up to snuff. For sure lineages are interesting, but trained?

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Perhaps we differ in our understanding of the term 'training' here. In my view, training goes beyond didactic learning in the classroom. I use this term to refer to the mentored, experiential learning, in which one acquires advanced skills of a niche craft.

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