The academic jungle: Ecosystem model reveals why women are driven out of science
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 - 09:20
in Biology & Nature
Understanding how a species battles to sustain itself in a challenging habitat is a cornerstone of ecological research; now scientists have applied this approach to science itself to discover why women are being driven out of academia. Their results, published in Oikos, reveals how a gender imbalance in science and academia is maintained by institutional barriers.