'Leaky Pipelines': Plug The Holes Or Change The System?
There are many reasons women leave careers: It's not fair to assume they have not met the mark; some are making positive choices for more impactful, and varied, lives, says 13.7 guest Patricia Fara.
Patricia Fara is the president of the British Society for the History of Science and a fellow at Clare College, Cambridge, UK. Her latest book is A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War.
I've got a degree in physics, but I have not stepped inside a laboratory since I graduated from Oxford.
According to statistical interpreters, I leaked out of the pipeline and joined the throngs of unsuccessful women who failed to leap over an early hurdle in their careers,
