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ANIME AKBAR posted:I thought the consensus was that gender bias manifests itself mainly in hiring and promotions. Much harder to prove that sort of gap though. In academia, they attempted to prove it with an experiment involving equally qualified male and female applicants in STEM fields: http://www.educationnews.org/higher-education/study-women-favored-for-stem-tenure-track-jobs/ "Contrary to prevailing assumptions, men and women faculty members [hiring decision-makers] from all four fields preferred female applicants 2:1 over identically qualified males with matching lifestyles (single, married, divorced)" So, they ended up proving the opposite. . .
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botany posted:I'd be careful with what that study actually shows. The researchers didn't evaluate actual hiring practices, they set up a hypothetical situation with made-up applicants. STEM fields still have a massive underrepresentation of women, and they are constantly getting poo poo for it. It's not a stretch to assume that when the institutes were asked to participate in a study on hiring preferences, they knew what this was about and accordingly overcorrected. Oh, and then these other researchers also set up a hypothetical situation with made-up applicants. They asked about lab managers instead of tenure-track faculty, and the hireability value switched to about 5:4 in favor of the male applicants.  http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/unofficial-prognosis/study-shows-gender-bias-in-science-is-real-heres-why-it-matters/
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