![]() ![]() One of us never made it into a science career at all, while the other has frequently found that her social background, not her gender, has made her the minority. Though not disadvantaged, we're both distinctly working class. Pay inequality, found the IPPR, is greater within-gender than between men and women.īut the IPPR recommends that we should be cautious of celebrating the increasing numbers of women at the top as a marker of equality, and instead develop "a more nuanced understanding of how gender interacts with class disadvantage" to hold some women back, while others go forward. The Institute for Public Policy Research's recent report, Great Expectations – Exploring the Promises of Gender Equality claims that the gender pay gap has effectively disappeared among 20-something professionals. Young, middle-class women are, in the main, doing fine. If we don't work on the breadth of our encouragement, we're in danger of ignoring a vast pool of potential: young, economically disadvantaged women who at the moment may well feel science is irrelevant to their lives.
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