No, but it is a way people can get financial security to be able to spend time on more public-facing efforts

That’s correct, but being forced out of academia is a good way for scientists to disappear from research and publication.

> Tenure is not how people gain notoriety

Being over looked because of your gender does not gain you notoriety either, otherwise notoriety would mean something completely different! There are so so many

But fighting back as Digg did, suing and campaigning - that is how you get notoriety, and help the people following in your footsteps.

A pox on their bigoted hierarchies.