mekka okereke Oct 4, 2024

Half of all science publishers quit within 10 years. Women quit more than men. Bunch of quitters!

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03222-7

🤔Quit? Or were driven out?

My favorite* part is that women in CompSci, Engineering, Math, and Physics, are less likely to stop publishing than women in less sexist academic fields. Possibly because we run young girls in Math/CS/Eng/Physics through a sexism gauntlet from day 1, so by the time they're grown women the survivors cope with gendered hostility better.😮

(*Least)

Nearly 50% of researchers quit science within a decade, huge study reveals

Twenty years of publishing data across many countries and disciplines show women are more likely than men to leave research.

Show threadmekka okereke Oct 4, 2024

This is EU data, but speaking of math: US people, don't do the math on being a poor Black girl with straight As, who takes out loans for 4 years of undergraduate tuition + 5 years of grad school tuition to get a PhD, and then only being able to use it for under 9 years. 🤡

Brilliant Black girls tend to have much poorer parents than the average American, and so need to borrow more for college. They're also more likely to excel in school and complete more levels than Black boys.

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Show threadSheebOct 4, 2024
@mekkaokereke always loved this graph demonstrating how wealthy, 'bad' students are for more likely to graduate from college than non-wealthy, 'good' students.
Show threadBen Ramsey
@Shebeencounter @mekkaokereke Do you have a link to the source for this graph? I’d like to share the source.
Oct 4, 2024 at 2:19pmWeb
Show threadSheebOct 4, 2024
@ramsey @mekkaokereke I'm actually looking for it... I'll let you know
Show threadSheebOct 4, 2024

@ramsey @mekkaokereke I think this is it...

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/magazine/who-gets-to-graduate.html?_r=0

Who Gets to Graduate?

Rich students complete their college degrees; working-class students like Vanessa Brewer usually don’t. Can the University of Texas change her chances of success?

The New York Times