Chika Ezure faced gender bias from her own family when deciding to do a master's degree at Japan's top-ranked university.
After arriving on campus, she realized the resistance she faced as a woman was commonplace.
She was surrounded by men: just 1 in 10 researchers at the prestigious University of Tokyo are women, and 1 in 5 students.
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