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Article: Young-Kee Kim; Deputy director, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.(Focus: Women to Watch)
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- Crain's Chicago Business
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- May 5, 2008
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Byline: Phuong Ly
As a child, Young-Kee Kim was shooed away from housework, even though her parents needed plenty of help on their apple farm in rural South Korea. Her mother, who had only an elementary school education, worried if Ms. Kim and her four sisters did too many common chores, they wouldn't aspire to lives beyond their small village.
"She didn't want her daughters to learn how to cook and farm because she thought if you were good at it, you would end up doing it,'' Ms. Kim says.
Today, Ms. Kim, 45, is deputy director of Fermilab, a physics lab where scientists study the smallest particles in the universe to answer the biggest ...
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