A sci­en­tist wages a war over women’s 'sec­ond-rate' sta­tus at the NIH

Over the past five years, the NIH’s at­tempt to achieve some sort of gen­der bal­ance in its sci­en­tif­ic ranks has large­ly failed to de­liv­er any­thing that could be con­sid­ered sta­tis­ti­cal­ly sig­nif­i­cant. Twen­ty-two per­cent of re­search sci­en­tists are women now, up from 19% in 2011, ac­cord­ing to a re­port in the Wash­ing­ton Post. And 38% of the sci­en­tists on a tenure track are women, com­pared to 36% five years ago.

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