Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering Fields?
To say that women are underrepresented in science and engineering fields is an understatement. It is also an oversimplification, because representation of […]
How is the Media Hindering Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights?
The news media has the potential to play a critical role in improving gender equality and women’s human rights. However, the patriarchal […]
Apprenticeship Returns: What’s Gender Got to Do with It?
[We are pleased to welcome Harry Krashinsky of University of Toronto. Harry published an article in the October 2015 issue of ILR […]
Tackling Gender Stereotypes With the Power of Words
Gendered language shapes how we think about the appropriate roles for men and women, especially when we are children and just beginning to form our understanding of the world. That might not sound like a problem, but it can reinforce stereotypes we are trying to tear down.
Social Science’s Impact on Society, Circa 2065: Kristin Hübner
Social Science Space is presenting 10 shortlisted essays written by young social scientists in an ESRC competition looking at how social science might change the world in the next half century. This week we present Kristin Hübner’s discussion on how feminist theory may erase socially constructed ideas about what gender is and how it functions.
Unequal to the Task: Task Segregation As a Mechanism of Inequality for Women at Work
Gender inequality studies have long focused on identifying the material disparities between men and women in the workforce, including researching the gender […]
Picking a Descriptor Also Picks a Gender
A recent data-mapping project reveals that women professors are consistently more likely to be described as feisty, bossy, aggressive, shrill, condescending, rude — and nice.
How Science Communication Can Validate Sexism
Cliodhna O’Connor describes how traditional gender stereotypes sometimes get projected onto scientific information and its subsequent reporting.
