Great to see @klarawanelik @Zen_of_Science paper on how ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and social background create barriers to academic career progression has now been published. Social origins under-represented in research and policies (.. cont/)
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2/n perhaps partly due to social position obviously being influenced by educational trajectory. A possible measure would be whether parents left education at the minimum legal age of school leaving prevalent when and where they grew up. This would be calculable for many ...
3/n (but not all) people, is stable for most, and could be added to the IDE monitoring data routinely collected. Some agencies are (finally) beginning to collect at least some data on this. In the US "first generation" college students is used, but there is enormous ..
4/5 variation among them that minimum schooling for parents picks up (i.e. both 1st gen and minimum parental education years could be recorded). The proportion of people who thought these the same when I've raised this over many years illustrates the impact of social origins..
5/5 is perhaps under-appreciated. Of course collecting data is only the first step in the harder process of working out what can be done to improve what is certainly a high (and inadequately recognized by institutions and their members) source of inequity in academic careers
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