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if you couldn’t tell the gender of the players, would you find watching men’s or women’s soccer more enjoyable? A new study suggests the likely answer is … both.
Researchers regularly observe gender differences in favor of men in various parts of academia, such as fewer women in senior academic positions, fewer publications, lower citations rates and lower funding of women. However, researchers also observe differences in favor of women, such as more women being elected in NAS, more favorable peer review and higher funding rates of women.
SAGE Publishing is hosting an inaugural Women in Social & Behavioral Science Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on March 8, which is International Women’s Day
Society, the authors, find, suppresses women’s entrepreneurship just by the way it talks about entrepreneurs.
[Ed. – April 2, 2022 is World Autism Awareness Day.] Being autistic, but not diagnosed, can lead to a lifetime […]
The underrepresentation of women in senior leadership positions across all sectors is clearly not a pipeline issue. Research points to bias as one reason they aren’t getting ahead.
Like it or loathe it, publishing in highprofile journals is the fast track to prestigious positions in academia. Yet somehow, in the search to understand why women’s scientific careers often fail to thrive, the role of academic writing has received little scrutiny. So to examine the representation of women within academic writing, Ione Fine, Alicia Shen, Jason Webster & Yuichi Shoda review 166,000 articles (between 2005-2017) to see how many are by women.
Emilio J. Castilla, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stephen Benard, Indiana University published “The Paradox of Meritocracy in Organizations,” in […]
