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by tptacek 2959 days ago
Women do not get math PhD's to become math teachers, nor do they publish cryptography research to do that.
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Playing devil's advocate, it's possible that someone winds up getting a PhD or publishing crypto research after finding out that they really like doing math, after initially choosing it with the intent to teach.

I have absolutely no idea whether that matches reality for enough people to make any kind of a difference.