Postdoctoral Hiring & Equity Issues in STEM: Employment Trends, Policy, and Research

Jill Huynh, Kimberlee Shauman

Pullias Center for Higher Education (2021)

Inequities in postdoctoral hiring reflect and contribute to inequities in the scientific labor force more broadly. Although their positions are usually temporary, postdoctorates comprise a substantial proportion of the STEM research workforce and conduct a large share of the work generating laboratory productivity. These researchers are a highly educated and productive, yet relatively inexpensive, source of labor compared to graduate students and staff scientists.

Categories: Equity, Equity and Graduate Education, IGEN

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