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Not just family matters

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After putting my children to bed and submitting my proposal to the Swedish Research Council (VR) last night, I read an interesting article in Nature Geoscience1, reporting that the fraction of women obtaining tenure-track positions after earning a PhD in physical oceanography has decreased from 23% to 8% between the periods 1980–1995 and 1996–2009. This finding deserves attention. However, I found the discussion of the reasons for this drop unsatisfying.

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