Lack of support undermines minority and female chemistry PhDs
US survey shows importance of peers and finances in graduate schools
US chemistry PhD students from traditionally underrepresented ethnic groups are less likely to get support that meets their needs, either in financial form or from their colleagues. Women are also significantly less likely than men to report having supportive advisers, according to a reanalysis of a 2013 American Chemical Society (ACS) survey of 1375 graduate students. ‘We need to take very seriously the gender and racial inequities that we find in this study,’ says the University of Oregon’s Geraldine Richmond.