Time-to-Credit Gender Inequities of First-Year PhD Students in the Biological Sciences.

ABSTRACT: Equitable gender representation is an important aspect of scientific workforce development to secure a sufficient number of individuals and a diversity of perspectives. Biology is the most gender equitable of all scientific fields by the marker of degree attainment, with 52.5% of PhDs awarded to women. However, equitable rates of degree completion do not translate into equitable attainment of faculty or postdoctoral positions, suggesting continued existence of gender inequalities. In a national cohort of 336 first-year PhD students in the biological sciences (i.e., microbiology, cellular biology, molecular biology, developmental biology, and genetics) from 53 research institutions, female participants logged significantly more research hours than males and were significantly more likely th

SUBMITTER: Feldon DF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5332047 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature