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#academia: misogyny is to blame for the gender gap in stem – @rolereboot
By feimineach / in #womensrights, #academia, #education, #equality, #quickhits, #sexism / April 27, 2017As a female scientist, I have had my fair share of misogynistic experiences. Some of them were covert attempts to remind me of my pre-determined role, while others were more flagrant. My male post-d...
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#patriarchiesrealign: Women who perform femininity are judged to be less suited to science #academia #research – @socimages
By feimineach / in #quickhits / April 17, 2017Sexism in American society has been on the decline. Obstacles to female-bodied people excelling in previously male-only occupations and hobbies have lessened. And women have thrived in these spaces,...
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#todayin: academia: #research: women academics do more “servce work” to their possible professional detriment
By feimineach / in #academia, #quickhits / April 14, 2017Women shoulder a disproportionately large workload at home in ways that might disadvantage them professionally. But are female professors also “taking care of the academic family” via disproportiona...
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#patriarchiesrealign: #research: women absent from introductory political science texts – @PSAWomenPol
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / April 4, 2017Despite compelling arguments for gender mainstreaming in political science education, evidence indicates that very little mainstreaming is taking place. This is likely related to a knowledge gap rega...
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#womenslives: female academics and the ‘flexibility myth’ @ rolereboot
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / April 1, 2017There’s a flexibility myth in academia. It goes like this: Academic mothers have it much better than other professional mothers because of their flexible schedule—a luxury women in business, journal...
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#research: Judith Butler (b. 1956) is a philosopher and theorist
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / February 25, 2017celebratingamazingwomen:JudithButler (b. 1956) is a philosopher and theorist whohas had a great shaping influence on political philosophy, as well as feminist andqueer theory. She is a Professor of Li...
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#guestpost: #research: More on the underrepresentation of women in psychology journals
By feimineach / in #sociology, #womensrights, #academia, #research, #equality, #gender, #sexism, #guestposts / January 30, 2017(Posted with permission from the author from the FWSA blog.) In a previous post at the FWSA blog I discussed the underrepresentation of women as authors of articles in academic psychology journals. I...
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#patriarchiesrealign: New study suggests women’s papers receive greater critical scrutiny #academia #research
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #academia, #quickhits / December 28, 2016But that headline doesn’t even scratch the surface of how interesting this study is. Erin Hengel examined papers by economists in top journals. She found: Women’s papers took longer from submiss...
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#todayin: academia: Persistent sexual harassment is a primary reason women leave STEM
By feimineach / in #academia, #quickhits / March 12, 2016Persistent Sexual Harassment Is a Primary Reason Women Leave STEM (jezebel) “The absence of women within STEM programs is not only progressive, it is persistent,” Hope Jahren writes in a recent essay...
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#todayin: academia: male science students rate female students lower
By feimineach / in #academia, #quickhits / February 22, 2016More on gender bias in academia and, in this case, STEM subjects again. (See also this very useful list of resources.) One of the challenges for anyone involved in this sort of equality work is to ide...
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#todayin: academia: Excellent list of resources (part. if you’re working on Athena Swan or similar)
By feimineach / in #academia, #quickhits / February 19, 2016Excellent list of resources (part. if you’re working on Athena Swan or similar). From HASTAC. In 1961, Phyllis Richman applied to graduate school at Harvard and received this letter of rejection.Overv...
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#research: national hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / July 7, 2015The underrepresentation of women in academic science is typically attributed, both in scientific literature and in the media, to sexist hiring. Here we report five hiring experiments in which faculty ...
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#todayin sexism: #research: John vs. Jennifer: A Battle of the Sexes
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / July 5, 2015Student applications rated for competence, hireability, and mentoring. More research evidence on the bias towards male applicants in science. Respondents were asked to rate students with identical ...
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#study: The five biases pushing women out of STEM
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / April 2, 2015Study: The five biases pushing women out of STEMTwo-thirds of the women interviewed, and two-thirds of the women surveyed, reported having to prove themselves over and over again – their successes dis...
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