{"id":480,"date":"2011-07-12T13:14:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T20:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/?p=480"},"modified":"2011-07-12T13:15:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T20:15:13","slug":"the-pipeline-is-still-leaky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/the-pipeline-is-still-leaky\/","title":{"rendered":"The pipeline is still leaky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Economix blog at <em>The New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/tag\/keeping-women-in-the-science-pipeline\/\">summarizes a study on science&#8217;s &#8220;leaky pipeline&#8221;<\/a>. Unsurprisingly, the study found that women are more likely to leave science due to the pressures of family life. Here are some of the most disturbing statistics from the summary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>married women with young children are 35% less likely to enter tenure-track positions post-Ph.D. than similar married men with young children<\/li>\n<li>married women with young children are 28% less likely than unmarried women without children to achieve tenure in science<\/li>\n<li>women with young children are 27% less likely than men with children to receive tenure once they are in a tenure track<\/li>\n<li>single women without children are about as successful as married men with children in attaining tenure track jobs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This last statistic has the frightening implication that to be successful in science a woman must forego marriage and children.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/workplaceflexibility.org\/images\/uploads\/program_papers\/mason_-_keeping_women_in_the_science_pipeline.pdf\">You&#8217;ll find a pdf of the original study here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/05\/keeping-women-in-science-on-a-tenure-track\/\">Somewhat confusingly, the Economix blog has a second post on the same study here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economix blog at The New York Times summarizes a study on science&#8217;s &#8220;leaky pipeline&#8221;. Unsurprisingly, the study found that women are more likely to leave science due to the pressures of family life. Here are some of the most disturbing statistics from the summary: married women with young children &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[17,55,42,77],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<br />
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