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universities, but these applications failed due to fairly open discrimination against women. Discrimination against Jewish mathematicians was also a factor. However, she took it all remarkably calmly, believing that if she could do something for future generations of women then she would have
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Princeton. “I am certainly conscious of the fact that it is hard for a refugee + woman to find something. Nevertheless I have not quite given up hope. I need not say that a research position would be just as welcome to me as teaching.” “I hope there will be better conditions for the next
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For many reasons, this was not a good arrangement. There were only two members of the mathematics faculty at
Wheaton College and Geiringer longed for a situation where she was among mathematicians who were carrying out research.
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