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Meet Janet Hyde, the Woman Behind the First Feminist Biology Program

When the University of Wisconsin announced last month it had endowed country?s first-ever post-doctoral program in feminist biology ? ?which attempts to uncover and reverse gender bias in biology? ? the backlash was swift. ?Memo to the University of Wisconsin,? Christina Hoff Sommers sniffed in an American Enterprise Institute video, ?we don?t need feminist biology any more than we need femistry or galgebra.?