4 ms·
Exploring Gender Bias in Six Key Domains of Academic Science
- revelio 3y agotl;dr "prestige" academia claims sexism against women is everywhere: > In the most prestigious journals and media outlets, which influence many people’s opinions about sexism, bias is frequently portrayed as an omnipresent factor limiting women’s progress in the tenure-track academy in reality it is systematically sexist against men: > our findings show that tenure-track women are at parity with tenure-track men in three domains (grant funding, journal acceptances, and recommendation letters) and are advantaged over men in a fourth domain (hiring) but because they're academics they can't actually accept their own findings and Still Believe: > we nevertheless acknowledge that broad societal structural factors may still impede women’s advancement in academic science. Rest of world experiences profound lack of shock at this 100% expected finding.