Looking at my female dominated grad cohort 20yrs ago, I expected we were going to be part of a shift to include more women in science as our careers advanced.
But retention percentages for women from student to full professor are the same now as they were when I started writing about it in the 2000s.
@Sheril The structure of academic careers really doesn’t help… you’re only as good as your last publication or successful grant application, you should expect to move cities or countries on a regular basis right through postdoctoral work and well into your late 30s… so something for single people or someone whose partner can & will move with them.