'There's something else that's limiting women's involvement -- and maybe advancement -- revealed by women's reticence to speak up.'
In elementary school I was the kid who looked forward to the days we had science class. By high school, I took every science elective offered, and I declared my biology major as an undergrad during my first quarter.
When I read stories about the leaky pipeline of women in STEM fields I often wonder where I fit in. I've never been able to see myself in stories about needing to get women excited about science , or more confident . I was even in a department dominated by female grad students so I had a good community. And yet I left.
Natalie Telis, PhD, and Emily Glassberg, PhD -- both former graduate students in the lab of geneticist Jonathan Pritchard, PhD -- found that at two genetics conferences over the course of four years women consistently asked fewer questions than men, even in subfields where women outnumber men.
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