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> women leave the field at a rate 3 to 4 times greater than men, and in particular, if they do not obtain a faculty position quickly

Wait what....you mean by STEM you just meant academia?

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Exactly my confusion with this article. I have multiple female friends who have earned doctorates in STEM who have either left or are planning on leaving academia to go to industry. However, they are still all going into STEM jobs!

So maybe the problem is that industry STEM is offering an overall better benefits package than academia? We're seeing the same thing in fields like AI, where academia can't retain top talent.

Yeah it's unfortunate that the author of this article uses the term STEM over and over again and is really only talking about the S. I wounder if the issues mentioned here are as common in private industry for women in the TEM fields? It seems like at least some companies are far more generous with things like maternity leave than what you might find in academia.

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