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I certainly hope that over the coming decade we see an increasing global effort to put in place appropriate regulations for using genome editing, especially in applications that could have a very profound impact on everyone.

Perhaps an obvious response to these findings is to encourage women to act more like men and be more positive; . . . this ‘fix the women’ approach lacks an understanding of the current evidence base on gender equity. We must fix the systems that support gender disparities.

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