Comments on: Sometimes We REALLY Need Girl Power… http://podblack.com/2008/06/sometimes-we-really-need-girl-power/ Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:18:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: podblack http://podblack.com/2008/06/sometimes-we-really-need-girl-power/comment-page-1/#comment-895 podblack Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:05:00 +0000 http://podblack.wordpress.com/?p=656#comment-895 There is also the factor of the delayed retirement of the 'Baby Boomer' generation. Cost of living (petrol!) has increased... so I think that yes, there are some implications that could be considered. There is also the factor of the delayed retirement of the ‘Baby Boomer’ generation. Cost of living (petrol!) has increased… so I think that yes, there are some implications that could be considered.

]]> By: Rev. Dr. Incitatus http://podblack.com/2008/06/sometimes-we-really-need-girl-power/comment-page-1/#comment-894 Rev. Dr. Incitatus Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:42:44 +0000 http://podblack.wordpress.com/?p=656#comment-894 I think Anna Kushnir's article is a little misleading. She compares the graduate/postdoc ratio with the prof ratio without taking into account the fact that the sharp rise in women entering science is fairly recent. Many academics are not getting tenured until past 40, so the current batch of profs represent a generation when the male/female ratio was perhaps a lot higher. It may take another ten years for academia as whole (grad student to Chair) to equilibrate, or as I suspect, begin to slant towards a higher female/male ratio (in the life sciences, particularly). I think Anna Kushnir’s article is a little misleading. She compares the graduate/postdoc ratio with the prof ratio without taking into account the fact that the sharp rise in women entering science is fairly recent. Many academics are not getting tenured until past 40, so the current batch of profs represent a generation when the male/female ratio was perhaps a lot higher.

It may take another ten years for academia as whole (grad student to Chair) to equilibrate, or as I suspect, begin to slant towards a higher female/male ratio (in the life sciences, particularly).

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