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Study links workplace devaluation to gendered faculty departures in the US

NewsfromScience reports that US women faculty shared hundreds of examples of devaluation with computational social scientist Katie Spoon.

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A group of individuals walks away from an open door on a red background. One individual stands in a separate doorway to the side. The text above reads: "For women academics, feeling devalued can be a fatal career blow."

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A study of 6,615 free-text responses from current and former tenure-line faculty found women reported feeling devalued more often than men, with the gap especially large among women of color. Devaluation was the workplace theme most strongly associated with gendered patterns of considering leaving or having left academia, but the authors caution the analysis is descriptive and does not establish causation.

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Study links workplace devaluation to gendered faculty departures in the US

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The gap widened across race and career stage

A strong association, not proof of cause

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