The 2026 Breakthrough Prize winners are out, and this year three Chinese young women mathematicians are making global headlines.Often dubbed the "Oscars of Science," the Breakthrough Prize honors groundbreaking achievements in life sciences, fundamental
  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 days ago

    i’m sorry but i still can’t read “women” used this way without getting jam stuck in my frontal lobe, it sounds like they’re doing some special math that only applies to women.
    Can we just say “mathematician women”? Or redo the sentence structure entirely so it also doesn’t end up sounding like being women is actually more pertinent than them being mathematicians?

    • DudleyMason@lemmy.ml
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      4 days ago

      Yeah. Using “women” as an adjective may be more socially acceptable than using “female” as a noun, but it really shouldn’t be.