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<blockquote data-quote="Jay Verkuilen" data-source="post: 7783954" data-attributes="member: 6873517"><p>There actually are a growing number in the undergraduate levels, but at the graduate and post-graduate levels, there are a ton of barriers that differentially hit women and minorities. Not that these fields are easy for anyone, but if the difficulty level for a single guy is, say, 1 at each hurdle, and the difficulty for a single woman or minority at any one of the hurdles is, say, 1.05, once you chain several hurdles together, you end up with the resulting final hurdle being quite substantial. For instance, if there are five independent hurdles (undergraduate, graduate, post-doc, assistant professor, associate professor) with that slightly higher difficulty, once you chain them (by multiplying) the resulting additional difficulty ends up being nearly 1.3. The reality is probably much worse for a few of the later ones, such as surviving to get tenure in an academic or senior research position, particularly given the choice many women face between having a scientific career and a family---remember that having a career in most research fields is "up or out" so once you're out, you're out for good. This is not to say it can't be done but when you factor in that some fields are known for being substantially discriminatory, it's not hard to see how this happens. Many prospective students look at a field and go "no way am I going through <em>that</em>." </p><p></p><p>A metaphor folks often use is the "leaky pipeline."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jay Verkuilen, post: 7783954, member: 6873517"] There actually are a growing number in the undergraduate levels, but at the graduate and post-graduate levels, there are a ton of barriers that differentially hit women and minorities. Not that these fields are easy for anyone, but if the difficulty level for a single guy is, say, 1 at each hurdle, and the difficulty for a single woman or minority at any one of the hurdles is, say, 1.05, once you chain several hurdles together, you end up with the resulting final hurdle being quite substantial. For instance, if there are five independent hurdles (undergraduate, graduate, post-doc, assistant professor, associate professor) with that slightly higher difficulty, once you chain them (by multiplying) the resulting additional difficulty ends up being nearly 1.3. The reality is probably much worse for a few of the later ones, such as surviving to get tenure in an academic or senior research position, particularly given the choice many women face between having a scientific career and a family---remember that having a career in most research fields is "up or out" so once you're out, you're out for good. This is not to say it can't be done but when you factor in that some fields are known for being substantially discriminatory, it's not hard to see how this happens. Many prospective students look at a field and go "no way am I going through [I]that[/I]." A metaphor folks often use is the "leaky pipeline." [/QUOTE]
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