More under-represented minorities are receiving graduate degrees and applying for faculty jobs than ever before, but a study of medical school employment found diversity there lags far behind.
According to a study published in the journal eLife, the number of under-represented minorities getting biomedical PhDs grew from fewer than 100 to nearly 900 between 1980 and 2013. But the number of assistant professors from those groups only increased from about 130 to about 340, less than a third the growth rate.
Among well-represented groups such as white or Asian people, those rates were much closer. Over the same time period there was a 2.2-fold increase in the number of PhDs awarded to those groups and a 1.7-fold in the number of assistant professors hired.
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