Equity for women and underrepresented minorities in STEM: Graduate experiences and career plans in chemistry.

ABSTRACT: Recent events prompted scientists in the United States and throughout the world to consider how systematic racism affects the scientific enterprise. This paper provides evidence of inequities related to race-ethnicity and gender in graduate school experiences and career plans of PhD students in the top 100 ranked departments in one science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) discipline, chemistry. Mixed-model regression analyses were used to examine factors that might moderate these differences. The results show that graduate students who identified as a member of a racial/ethnic group traditionally underrepresented in chemistry (underrepresented minorities, URM) were significantly less likely than other students to report that their financial support was sufficient to meet their nee

SUBMITTER: Stockard J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7848687 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature