Study: Women more likely than men to get tenure-track jobs at university science departments

Female professors in the sciences are more likely to get tenure

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published 14 April 2015

A surprising new study suggests that female candidates are twice as likely as men to gain tenure-track positions in science-related university departments, all other things being equal.

"It is a propitious time for women launching careers in academic science," researchers from the Cornell Institute for Women in Science wrote in the study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.