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Completely anecdotal but I intentionally took a number of sociology courses (despite majoring in a vastly different field) and this was my impression as well. W
by jonesb6 11y ago
Completely anecdotal but I intentionally took a number of sociology courses (despite majoring in a vastly different field) and this was my impression as well. While many of the 101 and low-level courses were closer to 50/50 higher level courses seemed to have a larger and larger majority women.
So it would make sense that more sociology-styled articles are indeed written by women.
Still anecdotal though.
- throwaway999888 11y agoDo you know if there was some correspondence with seniority and teaching higher or lower level courses? One way or the other. It seems to be that some things that are female dominated at lower levels, like undergraduate studies, might still be either more gender balanced or male dominated at higher levels, like research. Whether that is due to a glass ceiling or whatever else, I don't know; you'd have to ask a sociologist about that.
- im2w1l 11y agoGeneration effect
- disgruntledphd2 11y agoThis was the case for me, during my UG and PG studies in psychology. 90% female undergraduate (approx 36 girls, 4 guys including me). Around 80% female postgraduate. About 75% male lecturer/senior lecturer/professor. One of our lecturers brought it up, and I suggested that it might be due to more guys doing psychology in the past, but he refuted this, saying that the gender skew had been like that since he started in the field. My only real explanation for this is unconscious/institutional sexism.