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No progress on diversity in 40 years

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Ethnic and racial diversity are extremely low among United States citizens and permanent residents who earned doctorates in earth, atmospheric and ocean sciences. Worse, there has been little to no improvement over the past four decades.

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Fig. 1: PhDs earned by US citizens and permanent residents between 1973 and 2016.
Fig. 2: Gender balance.

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Bernard, R.E., Cooperdock, E.H.G. No progress on diversity in 40 years. Nature Geosci 11, 292–295 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0116-6

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