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Female physicists make slow academic headway in the United States

American Institute of Physics study finds women gaining higher proportions of PhDs and faculty positions, but identifies a leak in the pipeline at undergraduate level.
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Women physicists are making slight but steady inroads in US physics classrooms and universities, according to a report from the American Institute of Physics (AIP), a non-profit research organization and publisher based in College Park, Maryland. “There’s reason for optimism,” says Rachel Ivie, a co-author of the report and the director of the AIP’s Statistical Research Center. “But there’s also reason for frustration because things are moving so slowly.”

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-01414-0

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