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Exploring Gender Bias in Six Key Domains of Academic Science (sagepub.com)
2 points by barry-cotter on April 29, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


tl;dr "prestige" academia claims sexism against women is everywhere:

> In the most prestigious journals and media outlets, which influence many people’s opinions about sexism, bias is frequently portrayed as an omnipresent factor limiting women’s progress in the tenure-track academy

in reality it is systematically sexist against men:

> our findings show that tenure-track women are at parity with tenure-track men in three domains (grant funding, journal acceptances, and recommendation letters) and are advantaged over men in a fourth domain (hiring)

but because they're academics they can't actually accept their own findings and Still Believe:

> we nevertheless acknowledge that broad societal structural factors may still impede women’s advancement in academic science.

Rest of world experiences profound lack of shock at this 100% expected finding.




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