The Edinburgh professor plugging the ‘leaky pipeline’ that prevents women from having careers in science
8 March 2018
Professor Polly Arnold OBE wants to fix the ‘leaky pipeline’ of women dropping out of scientific careers.
Only 9% of chemistry professors are women, according to a recent report by the Royal Society of Chemistry. This is despite the near 50-50 male-female ratio of undergraduate chemistry students.
“At every level [beyond undergraduate] the leaky pipeline affect works,” said Professor Arnold on Brainwaves. “This is the pipeline where women drop out at a greater rate at every career stage.”
To combat this Professor Arnold has launched SciSisters, a website designed to end the isolation felt by women in the STEM industries, and to establish a network of great female scientists.
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Pennie Latin meets the founder of Sci Sisters and the Crum Brown Chair of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, Professor Polly Arnold.
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