Half of all science publishers quit within 10 years.
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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)
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mekka okereke :verified:replied to mekka okereke :verified: last edited by
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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@mekkaokereke always loved this graph demonstrating how wealthy, 'bad' students are for more likely to graduate from college than non-wealthy, 'good' students.
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mekka okereke :verified:replied to mekka okereke :verified: last edited by
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
Student Loan Debt | The Department of Financial Protection and Innovation
Celina Damian, California Student Loan Ombudsperson, on the disproportionate student debt burden and how she helps borrowers navigate long-term debt.
The Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (dfpi.ca.gov)
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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