STAT January 19, 2022
Women in STEM professions have long been told that we’ll achieve gender equity as soon as enough of us join a particular field. That turns out to be false. There are already fields where half of the scientists are women and little has changed in them.
Why? I believe that specific decision-making behaviors cumulatively add up to put women at a disadvantage and hold them back from rising to the top.
Let’s use my field — academic medicine — as an example. It’s a branch of medicine encompassing physicians and scientists affiliated with medical schools, universities, or hospitals. The physicians often combine clinical care with research. It’s crucial for creating medical miracles, like the preliminary work that made possible the...
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