Nearly Half of US Female Scientists Leave Full-Time Science After First Child

Re:Nearly Half of US Female Scientists Leave Full-Time Scien... by belorn on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @06:39PM (#19204132)

Using Swedish statistics from a few years ago, 12.5% of the population has a professional job which has at minimum 40% men and 40% women. 88.5% do not. Split per gender this was 88.4% for men and 88.6% for women.

If we state that bias is a risk then we must conclude that around 90% of the population work in echo chambers (more if we find that 60/40 is still quite bad segregation) and could use the benefit of reduced risk of mistakes. It would be interesting to hear what suggestions people have to address this generally so that the 88.4% of men and 88.6% women can reduce the risk.

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Re:Nearly Half of US Female Scientists Leave Full-Time Scien... by gboudrias on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @08:16PM (#19204730)

Could you explain what point you're making? I can't tell if you're disagreeing with me or not.

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Re:Nearly Half of US Female Scientists Leave Full-Time Scien... by belorn on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @03:55AM (#19206603)

Not an disagreement, but rather a remark. What ever the effect of gender segregation is, it would then be practically universal here because thats how the data look like.

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