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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.
About the author: Jose Quesada wanted to be a matador, an acrobatic pilot, or a painter, but found those activities not demanding enough, so he chose an academic career. He secretly hopes to orchestrate a system that produces papers without any human intervention (particularly, his).
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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 August 28, 2008.
APA citation:
Quesada, Jose. (2008). Wired: Why Are Senior Female Scientists So Heavily Outnumbered by Men?. Retrieved August 28, 2008, 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 August 28, 2008).
Harvard citation:
Quesada, J 2008, Wired: Why Are Senior Female Scientists So Heavily Outnumbered by Men?, Academic Productivity. Retrieved August 28, 2008, 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 28 Aug. 2008. <http://www.academicproductivity.com/2008/wired-why-are-senior-female-scientists-so-heavily-outnumbered-by-men/>
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