Stewart, Georgina2023-05-302023-05-302023-04-18ACCESS: Contemporary Issues in Education, ISSN: 0111-8889 (Print); 0111-8889 (Online), Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, 43(1). doi: 10.46786/ac23.43690111-88890111-8889https://hdl.handle.net/10292/16196A 2022 paper by Tara McAllister lists ‘50 reasons why there are no Māori’ in university science departments, giving a range of examples of Māori experience of personal and structural racism within the edifices of science and research in Aotearoa New Zealand. In support of McAllister and the larger social and intellectual project of Kaupapa Māori to which her work contributes, this commentary offers ethnic socio-economic inequality as the ‘51st reason’ and explains how it causes the permanent disparity of very few working scientists who identify as Māori.ACCESS: Contemporary Issues in Education has just relaunched in 2020 as an online, green open access journal, published by the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA).4701 Communication and Media Studies4702 Cultural Studies46 Information and Computing Sciences47 Language, Communication and Culture4610 Library and Information Studies10 Reduced Inequalities0807 Library and Information Studies2001 Communication and Media Studies2002 Cultural Studies4610 Library and information studies4701 Communication and media studies4702 Cultural studiesJournal ArticleOpenAccess10.46786/ac23.4369