LGBTQ scientists are still left out

Abstract

During a single tenure-track job interview in 2011, 13 people asked me: "Do you have a wife?" And when I was an assistant professor, a colleague pulled aside a candidate for a postdoctoral position in my lab to let him know that I'm gay, just in case it would be a problem. [...]they are dropping out of STEM degrees at a higher rate than women overall3. Diversity programmes to develop the scientific workforce at both the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) consistently leave out LGBTQ people. [...]the NSF's analyses of STEM participation, widely used by funding agencies and universities, do not even track LGBTQ people6. [...]the data that could inform policy are not being collected.