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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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#research: women academics ‘pay price for academic citizenship’
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / December 18, 2016(I question how much of this is “choice” and how much of it is role allocation.)•••Female professors earn less on average than their male counterparts because they focus on underappreciated “academic ...
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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: student evaluations are better and predicting gender bias and grade expectations (from @insidehighered)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / January 14, 2016The latter we’ve all known for a long time. The former is repeatedly confirmed in research. Certainly something to remember for the new “TEF”. From insidehighered: There’s mounting ...
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#research: #todayin: who would have thunk it! Gender bias in evaluations of evidence of gender bias
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / October 20, 2015I think I’ve leave this one to speak for itself too. Write-up (and good unpicking) from feministphilosophers: A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reports t...
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#todayin: frustration: #research: The Imagined Link Between Masculinity and Creativity
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / October 1, 2015Note: the link is not between creativity and masculinity but, rather, the attribution of creativity to men because they are ascribed the masculine traits of self-direction and independence that we ass...
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#patriarchiesrealign: #research: Gender bias found in reviews of scientific studies
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #research, #quickhits / January 31, 2015A scientist’s gender can have a big impact on how other researchers perceive his or her work, according to a new study. Young scholars rated publications supposedly written by male scientists a...
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