Keeping Women in Science on a Tenure Track

Keeping Women in Science on a Tenure Track | NY Times

Some shocking numbers regarding the impact of having children as a graduate student or a postdoc on chances of getting a faculty position and tenure. I like the quantitative nature of the study and they recommend specific actions.

… women who are married with young children are 35 percent less likely to enter a tenure-track position after receiving a Ph.D. in science than are married men with young children and Ph.D.’s in science. Not only that, the married women with young children are 28 percent less likely than women without children to achieve tenure in the sciences.

… 13 percent of universities provide at least six weeks’ paid maternity leave to graduate students, while 58 percent of universities provide it to faculty.

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