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When academic collaborations reflect broader inequities

My research partner and I are both grad students but he's a white man and I'm a Black woman, and our advisor consistently gives him more credit for our collaborative work. We haven't talked about it because we're friends, but it's affecting my career and our partnership.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Institutional bias is undermining your partnership while you both stay silent to preserve the relationship.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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