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How I fell out of love with academia

• robthebrew 3y ago
  Nothing has changed in 30 years, and it is not a female issue. I Left Academia in about 1993
  • PaulHoule 3y ago
    When you look an an elite school, a huge fraction of professors have parents as professors. If the system was going to be made fair maybe 70% of the people who are getting those jobs today would have to be told, starting grad school, that they were automatically disqualified from getting a job in academia to give somebody else a chance. Women do have real problems but it's also a fact that doubling the applicant pool doubles the number of professor's kids that the system wants to hire and makes it harder for outsiders to get in.
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    • ajkjk 3y ago
      Don't think they're becoming professors because of like.. nepotism. More like their family is culturally academic and heavily prioritizes/assumes that.
      • jorl17 3y ago
        I am from Portugal and in my experience this is the reason.
      • PaulHoule 2y ago
        I am not saying it is nepotism, but that people coming from the outside find it to be an alien culture and find it hard to fit in.
• jorl17 3y ago
  I'm a bit sad that this post hasn't gained more traction. I'm a big fan of Sabine's work and I found her video to be good in terms of the content provided. Perhaps there is no traction because most people on HN already know that this is reality.
• gabriella4151 3y ago
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