キャリアニュース2020年10月29日～11月5日

Underrepresented U.S. women of color (UWOC)—Black Americans, Latina Americans, Native Americans, and Indigenous Pacific Islanders—have long been underrepresented among Ph.D. recipients in computer science. The number of computer science Ph.D. degrees annually awarded to UWOC is miniscule. Moreover, even when compared with white women, the discrepancies are overwhelming. The Computer Research Association's Taulbee Survey revealed that in 2019, only seven UWOC (U.S. citizens) received Ph.D. degrees in computer science—a mere 0.43% of all computer science doctorates attained that year and only 2.1% of the doctorates awarded to all women. A sincere will to increase the number of UWOC in computer science graduate programs may be effective in getting more undergraduate UWOC to enroll. A start would be to encourage undergraduate UWOC to engage in computer science research and then to pursue a computer science graduate degree. Another tactic is to establish communication with other computer s

Dear Ph.D. adviser: I just finished editing my paper based on the comments from our two colleagues. Reading what they wrote felt like walking through hell (though I don't believe that hell or heaven exists). Yes, it felt that bad. It took me 2 days to get over that horrible feeling before I could focus on editing the paper. Then I asked myself why their comments made me feel so bad. Does my writing suck that much? No. I know I have room to improve, but I have received positive responses from other colleagues about my manuscripts in the past. Am I incapable of taking feedback? No. Comments from another professor, two postdocs, and you, dear adviser, do not cause that sharp pain. Were the comments profane or abusive? No. But in my head, I could hear our colleagues making their points in the sarcastic, disrespectful tone they use when they speak to me. The comments were a trigger, waking other painful memories I have tried to bury. > “I need more than a thicker skin. I need a spiky one