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Three articles published yesterday in #Science, Science Advances & Nature đŸ€”

Women remain underrepresented among faculty in nearly all academic fields https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi2205

Toxic workplaces are the main reason women leave academic jobs https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03251-8

Women faculty feel ‘pushed’ from academia by poor workplace climate
https://www.science.org/content/article/women-faculty-feel-pushed-academia-poor-workplace-climate

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RFanciola
RFanciola
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Interesting study even though the results are not really surprising, I guess. Unfortunately.
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abuabdillah
abuabdillah
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any way women is women and man is man . There are many many contradictions when they try to balance their needs.
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Steve Davidian
Steve Davidian
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And the opinion piece by Thorp (13 Oct) doesn't bode well either. Basically, academics have learned nothing and changed nothing across many decades of discontent.

I blame male economists and lawyers mostly.

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legraLeGra
legraLeGra
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Is there a hashtag for that

Rando old-school scientist upon catching me pregnant:
“What! that’s two for you already. That’s plenty”

Rando NAS lawyer:
“No, fed law does not say you get a pumping space, just NY law
 be grateful you have your own office
” 2weeks later, co-worker walks in on me pumping in ‘my own’ office

5weeks post-birth: Working from home bc 0 paid leave days. {Boss} demands I show up to personally pass along PM anger at me for having too many paleoclimate pubs

 
 


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Jared Davis
Jared Davis
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Guys: Please stop making irrelevant comments and questions on threads like this, and read the research 😒 You may be doing exactly the same behavior that’s implicated in these studies regarding poor workplace culture. Let’s do better

Cf: articles shared by @Sheril

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Phantomrijder
Phantomrijder
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Dear Sheril, there are many many men who experience the same.
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Fessup
Fessup
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Among authors, there is hardly any inclusiveness when men invite collaboration or promote other author events.
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Susan S
Susan S
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It’s frustrating that exclusion behaviors continue to continue, even at places supposedly dedicated to the pursuit and transfer of knowledge. I know two tenured female professors who left toxic engineering departments. One retired early; the other found a new university.
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Deborah
Deborah
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One could say that this is all due to how academia is structured and what kind of personal attributes are favored!
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Dr. Nancy Wayne ✅
Dr. Nancy Wayne ✅
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Not surprised at all by the finding that toxic workplaces are the main reason tenure-track and tenured women faculty leave their jobs. Still, it's depressing. As a professional development consultant and professor emerita, I also see a lot of women faculty desperate to leave their toxic departments, but who cannot afford to do so because jobs in their field are so scarce.
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Jaime
Jaime
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I need to read the articles you posted but I also wonder if there are studies that look at gender, race, ethnicity of those denied tenure. Thanks for posting
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Jacky Tweedie
Jacky Tweedie
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I doubt the picture is much different I other public sectors either.

Cheers for links.

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EmmeC
EmmeC
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Need more female faculty members in making tenure policies. Need more female professors as role models to guide the next generation of scientists. Nothing will change if one gender is consistently missing in decision making meetings.

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