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There were quite a number of interesting points raised at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum panel debate about the Gender Gap in…
The need for more women in STEM has become a mantra, accepted as a truism and blamed on sexism and the discouragement of women…
The Australian Behavioural Economics Team conducted a randomized trial of hiring in which applications for senior positions in…
1. Which celebrities are loved equally by Republicans and Democrats? 2. Male economists stand out once again (pdf). 3. Miles…
In recent years, there has been an increasing focus on encouraging women to join STEM fields, but there is still work that…
If this reminds you of your own writing style, it’s time we had a little conversation …There’s been much discussion about the…
I am not infrequently challenged about why I worry so much about women in academia when young men are being disadvantaged. This…
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This guest post is contributed by GSA member Jeremy Yoder of the University of British Columbia. (More about this author) …
They say good reputations take a life time to build and a second to destroy. Never has that been made clearer than in June of…
From Tim Hunt to Witch Hunt in 37…
Let’s face it: gender bias in academia is for…
The day I got into MIT, I listened to the boys in my high school physics class whisper that girls had gotten in just because…
First published at Marie-Claire Shanahan’s personal blog, Boundary Vision, on 1 July 2015. A few months ago I wrote a blog post…
A few months ago I wrote a blog post in response to Williams and Ceci’s paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of…
Jump to follow-up There can be no doubt that the situation for women has improved hugely since I started at UCL, 50 years ago.
In a new study, people associated "science" with "men" even in nations where women are approximately half of science majors and…
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Welcome to the April 2015 High Five here at Altmetric! In this blog post, I’ll be leading you on a tour of the top 5 peer-reviewe…
Robust empirical research shows that women are less likely to be hired for STEM jobs, as well as promoted, remunerated and…
It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World, at least if you look at who Williams and Ceci thought worthy of responding to. Wendy Williams…
As all y’all know, because I am constantly reminding everyone, I am from Tennessee. I like to think I am not racist and I…
The latest article exploring sexism in academia suggests that it no longer exists. Some have already grumbled about flaws in…
Women have a 2:1 advantage over men when applying for tenure-track roles in mathematically intensive subjects in academia. http…
In case you missed it, there was a big-splash paper in PNAS recently entitled “National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty…
A new study published in PNAS by a Cornell-based research team examined the gender bias in faculty hiring for STEM fields, and…
Apparently, your paper will get more attention if it is published on hump day. This story from last year explains how the…
If you skimmed through some articles about women in science recently, you’d be forgiven for thinking ‘problem solved’. A recent…
[Credit: Futurama][UPDATED! See below.] Anyone who has applied for academic positions, whether teaching or research-focused…
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When a CNN article titled “The Myth about Women in Science” came crawling across my feed, I have to admit that I wasn’t…
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Williams and Ceci just released National Hiring Experiments Reveal 2:1 Faculty Preference For Women On STEM Tenure Track…
Screen grab from CNN for the OpEd by the authors of the PNAS study. (*) In a paper just published in PNAS, Cornell professors W.
A new article on CNN by psychology professors, Wendy Williams and Stephen Ceci, boldly proclaims that gender bias in Science…
In their series that could be titled "Academic sexism is a myth", Wendy Williams and Stephen Ceci have a newest installment: on…
_Sharp'r_ writes In the first "empirical study of sexism in faculty hiring using actual faculty members", Cornell University…
I continue to struggle to avoid saying anything more about the Hugo mess, so let’s turn instead to something totally non-controve…
The results described below suggest that faculty evaluators of STEM job applicants tend to favor women over men. Certainly…
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences produced findings that appear to show that hiring…
Sexist hiring practices are commonly blamed for the underrepresentation of women in many fields of academic science, but new…
The fair fraction of female faculty is 2 times lower than the current oneSteven Pinker called it a shocker of a study but I am…
In a new audit study, male economists are the only ones who came out as gender-blind in hiring preferences.The…