Leaks in the Pipeline: Why Do Women Remain Curiously Absent from the Ranks of Academia?

Authors

Mary Anne Holmes, University of Nebraska--LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

3-15-2007

Comments

Published in Nature (March 15, 2007) 446: 346. Copyright 2007, Nature Publishing Group. http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/2007/070315/full/nj7133-346a.html Used by permission. DOI: 10.1038/nj7133-346a

Abstract

Family issues can cause women to abandon academia at every rung of the career ladder. Policy-makers have addressed some ways to get more women on to the lower rungs of the ladder. But solutions at the higher steps—tenure and beyond—are proving a little more difficult.