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 threadShadSterlingOct 4, 2024
@mekkaokereke when I first learned what grad school was I also learned the adage that if they won’t pay you to do it you’re probably not good enough. I guess grad student stipends were enough to live on for my parents’ generation; I think we should go back to that and then some, in addition to being more inclusive both in school and out
Show threadMichael Busch

@ShadSterling @mekkaokereke In California as of 2022; graduate students were not getting paid much more than I got paid in Pasadena 15 years before that, while the cost of living was far higher.

It took unionization and strikes to get the current students the 50% raise they needed.

And, per earlier comments, there is systemic exclusion at the undergraduate level before that.

Oct 4, 2024 at 4:19pmWeb