Anna Kushnir has an interesting letter to Wired where she describes how the proportion of women to men went from 7:1 in grad school to 1:7 in senior academic positions.
What is causing this switch? The comment section has a bunch of hypotheses. Worth a look.
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AMA citation:
Quesada J. Wired: Why Are Senior Female Scientists So Heavily Outnumbered by Men?. Academic Productivity. 2008. Available at: http://www.academicproductivity.com/2008/wired-why-are-senior-female-scientists-so-heavily-outnumbered-by-men/. Accessed September 3, 2010.
APA citation:
Quesada, Jose. (2008). Wired: Why Are Senior Female Scientists So Heavily Outnumbered by Men?. Retrieved September 3, 2010, from Academic Productivity Web site: http://www.academicproductivity.com/2008/wired-why-are-senior-female-scientists-so-heavily-outnumbered-by-men/
Chicago citation:
Quesada, Jose. 2008. Wired: Why Are Senior Female Scientists So Heavily Outnumbered by Men?. Academic Productivity. http://www.academicproductivity.com/2008/wired-why-are-senior-female-scientists-so-heavily-outnumbered-by-men/ (accessed September 3, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Quesada, J 2008, Wired: Why Are Senior Female Scientists So Heavily Outnumbered by Men?, Academic Productivity. Retrieved September 3, 2010, from <http://www.academicproductivity.com/2008/wired-why-are-senior-female-scientists-so-heavily-outnumbered-by-men/>
MLA citation:
Quesada, Jose. "Wired: Why Are Senior Female Scientists So Heavily Outnumbered by Men?." 3 Jun. 2008. Academic Productivity. Accessed 3 Sep. 2010. <http://www.academicproductivity.com/2008/wired-why-are-senior-female-scientists-so-heavily-outnumbered-by-men/>
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