Breaking the old boys’ club: battling systemic bias in academic science

The social justice uprising of the last year has led to a lot of conversations about the ways marginalized groups are often excluded. That’s not always because of conscious prejudice: but because built-in systems and cultures often limit the opportunities for women, BIPOC, LGBTQ individuals and others. A new paper by an Oregon State University professor looks at how this kind of exclusion happens in the workplace- specifically, in the academic sciences.