Two key issues for psychology as an academic discipline have been identified in a survey of university departments across the UK: a lack of senior female academics and a lack of male undergraduates http://ow.ly/CtqB30l676s pic.twitter.com/0SBPxox66L
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Why would that put off male undergraduates? Who's choosing uni based on the male to female ratio of leaders?
My point is (I've seen lots of these campaigns) is they focus on examples of women in Psychology etc or profiles of them and this creates an impression the discipline is female dominated, which puts of male ugrads the same way the very male reputation of physics puts off women
And at the senior level, no-one in their right mind is responding to PR campaigns. They are concerned about their research, or personal issues etc. They will totally ignore any efforts and only ugrads will be affected
To be fair it's 25 years since I was a psychology undergrad. My memory is that there were far more female undergrads than males and ALL of my lecturers were men. Wasn't aware then of any campaigns to balance gender representation at any level.
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