Qualia

Over the last ten years, women earned roughly half the doctorates awarded in biological sciences, yet they make up only 35% of assistant professors in both Canada and the United States. About half of medical students are also female, but similar numbers of men and women are still in medicine seven years after training. In a recent article published in BioScience, Professor Shelley Adamo examines the reasons why medicine—as a field—is more successful at retaining women than are the academic life sciences.