When you look an an elite school, a huge fraction of professors have parents as professors. If the system was going to be made fair maybe 70% of the people who are getting those jobs today would have to be told, starting grad school, that they were automatically disqualified from getting a job in academia to give somebody else a chance.
Women do have real problems but it's also a fact that doubling the applicant pool doubles the number of professor's kids that the system wants to hire and makes it harder for outsiders to get in.
Don't think they're becoming professors because of like.. nepotism. More like their family is culturally academic and heavily prioritizes/assumes that.
Women do have real problems but it's also a fact that doubling the applicant pool doubles the number of professor's kids that the system wants to hire and makes it harder for outsiders to get in.