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Women scientists at famed oceanography institute have half the lab space of men - Science

Women scientists at famed oceanography institute have half the lab space of men - Science

Women scientists at famed oceanography institute have half the lab space of men - Science
Jan 23, 2023 1 min, 11 secs

Women constitute 26% of the scientists at the prestigious Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), but only hold 17% of the space, according to an unprecedented report released last week.

In the early 1990s, under cover of dark, Hopkins measured every lab in the biology building there before leading a groundbreaking 1999 report on systematic discrimination against MIT faculty women.

A 2000 gender equity review by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution found women scientists experienced a striking space deficit compared with their male peers as both advanced in their careers, but it did not examine possible confounders as the current study did.

When the authors of the new study corrected for variables such as funding, time at SIO, and discipline that might explain the stark differences in space assignments, they came up empty.

“[It’s] gonna get fixed,” says Victor Ferreira, a psychologist who is UCSD’s associate vice chancellor for faculty diversity, equity, and inclusion and headed the task force that authored the report.

One woman, a junior geoscientist at a major university who asked not to be identified for fear of career repercussions, says that in 2020, with COVID-19 protocols dictating the precise amount of space required per person in the lab, “suddenly there were spreadsheets flying around … and blueprints of the department.” She soon generated a color-coded bar graph showing men at all career levels ahead of women in lab space per capita.

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