How I fell out of love with academia
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How I fell out of love with academia
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Re: How I fell out of love with academia
#2Nothing has changed in 30 years, and it is not a female issue. I Left Academia in about 1993
Re: How I fell out of love with academia
#3Nothing has changed in 30 years, and it is not a female issue. I Left Academia in about 1993
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.
Re: How I fell out of love with academia
#4I'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.
Re: How I fell out of love with academia
#5Nothing has changed in 30 years, and it is not a female issue. I Left Academia in about 1993
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…
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Re: How I fell out of love with academia
#6Nothing has changed in 30 years, and it is not a female issue. I Left Academia in about 1993
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…
Don't think they're becoming professors because of like.. nepotism. More like their family is culturally academic and heavily prioritizes/assumes that.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Don't think they're becoming professors because of like.. nepotism. More like their family is culturally academic and heavily prioritizes/assumes that.
I am from Portugal and in my experience this is the reason.
Re: How I fell out of love with academia
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Don't think they're becoming professors because of like.. nepotism. More like their family is culturally academic and heavily prioritizes/assumes that.
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.