Greg Abbott’s education plan cites controversial thinker on race, gender

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4. It is my understanding that some college teachers who gave grades, gave the top grades

as a percentage/bell curve, to men in fields of science. This was a part of the counter culture against the equal rights amending back in the 1970s. How many lower graded students would be accepted in to a Master's Degree Program, as a committee of men would not accept any worthy degree plans from women graduates? Even lesser the number of PHD degree plans of importance, would be accepted by the Department of Sciences. Men had nothing to learn from women; they (men) did the teaching and receiving.

http://www.atomicarchive.com/Bios/Meitner.shtml
Meitner was ignored for the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physics.

https://frmilovan.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/einstein-and-mileva/
Here is a written history of the brilliant student Mileva Maric (including husband Albert Einstein).