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A recent study found that the number of researchers leaving science within the first decade is nearly 50%. And women are twice as likely as men to leave the field. “When you have this kind of big data, it becomes more compelling to recognize that this is a problem,” says Joya Misra, a sociologist at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, who studies gender and inequality in academia. Nature attempts to untangle it all: https://flip.it/2ZSKZC
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