It's going on here in the USA in some male dominated occupations too. I have a friend that is on the board of directors for a number of large companies. Not su

It's going on here in the USA in some male dominated occupations too. I have a friend that is on the board of directors for a number of large companies. Not surprisingly, he says that boards are all looking for women and minorities. Publicly traded companies are naturally in competition for the best board members they can find in these categories. In research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2015), the investigators determined that faculty comittees prefer female candidates 2 to 1 over male candidates with equally strong resumes. See [1]. [1] “National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | April 2015