I came across a book on doing postgraduate degrees the other day, which was called something like "A woman's guide to doing a Doctorate". My instinctive reaction was to think that there should be no difference at-all, and what sort of feminist pillock thinks there is.
But it interested me enough to pick up the book and read a couple of pages. The emphasis was interesting - it suggested that women routinely suffer from the misapprehension that ability alone is enough to succeed (in their Doctorate), and that much of the book was about explaining how and why it was important to fit in with the general ethos and modes of behaviour of their (academic) environment.
I'm not judging, but it was an interesting point - and written by a woman trying to give advice on how to succeed on (what she perceived as) a primarily male working environment.
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