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 threadmekka okereke Oct 4, 2024

20 years after the first year of college, the typical white student has paid down 94% of their borrowed amount.👍🏻

20 years after the first year of college, the typical Black student still owes 95% of their initial borrowed amount.😮

So US college education and loans *increase* the racial wealth gap, not reduce it🙂🙃

https://dfpi.ca.gov/2023/02/13/student-loan-debt-a-disproportionate-burden-on-black-and-latino-borrowers/

Which is the real reason that some US folk are so against student loan forgiveness: much of that *$2 trillion* in debt, is held by educated Black women.

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Show threadisotope239 🥸💻🇺🇦😣
@mekkaokereke I might add that "some US folk" (cough cough, REPUBLICANS) specifically don't like educated Black women because people like Jasmine Crockett, Fani Willis, and Letitia James are extremely competent and never hesitate to speak truth to power.
Oct 4, 2024 at 3:13pmWeb
Show threadVenitaOct 4, 2024
@isotope239 @mekkaokereke It's not only Republicans. The biggest pushback I received during my work life was from women White and Black. There were the benevolent White women benefactors who let you know your place, and the Black women fighting for ever shrinking slice of promotion pie.