Despite common claims of sexism in academic STEM, social scientists who surveyed 20 years of scientific literature on the subject found little evidence of bias against women.
Their paper examined “research regarding biases that tenure-track women [professors] have faced” in science, technology, engineering or math, Inside Higher Ed reported last week. Authors examined academic studies published from 2000 to 2020.
They found women “are advantaged over men” when it comes to hiring, according to the abstract of the paper, published recently in the academic journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest.
Women in STEM have an advantage over men in hiring decisions, researchers found
- by: College Fix Staff
- 2023-05-02
- Source:
The College Fix
- 05/02/2023
A postdoctoral fellow in the National Cancer Institute's Experimental Immunology Branch, pipetting DNA samples into a tube for polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, a laboratory technique used to make multiple copies of a segment of DNA. by National Cancer Institute is licensed under Unsplash unsplash.com
A postdoctoral fellow in the National Cancer Institute's Experimental Immunology Branch, pipetting DNA samples into a tube for polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, a laboratory technique used to make multiple copies of a segment of DNA. by National Cancer Institute is licensed under Unsplash unsplash.com
