Opinion: I thought patriarchy in science was fading. Then I saw it in the data
As I returned home from this year’s Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference, one word rang loudly in my ears: patriarchy.
In a presentation on the impact of gender on women’s careers, Carnegie Mellon statistician Dalene Stangl boldly claimed that although the term may be out of favor, patriarchy is “alive and well” and that “it happened to me.”
