By Nicolle Zellner
In their article for Nature Reviews Materials, Sexism in academia is bad for science and a waste of public funding, Nicole Boivin, Susanne Täuber, Ulrike Beisiegel, Ursula Keller, and Janet Hering write that higher education and research institutions "are critical to the well-being and success of societies, meaning their financial support is strongly in the public interest. At the same time, value-for-money principles demand that such investment delivers. Unfortunately, these principles are currently violated by one of the biggest sources of public funding inefficiency: sexism."
Using cross-European-Union data, the article describes stages where women leave the fields of science and the subsequest compounding economic losses.
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Further reading:
- Taking the Long View on Sexism in Science by Pat Lee Shipman (American Scientist, 2015)
- What science has gotten wrong by ignoring women by Catherine Zuckerman (National Geographic, 2018)
- Racism and Sexism in Science Haven’t Disappeared by Naomi Oreskes (Scientific American, 2020)
- Don’t get mad, get equal: putting an end to misogyny in science by Alison Bentley & Rachael Garrett (Nature, 2023)
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