Being Female Bad for Academic Careers

By Staff

Women are less likely to have their academic papers published when the reviewers know that the author is female, according to a recent study published on ScienceDirect. Researchers looked at two scientific journals of similar subject matter, one where the reviewers knew the author’s gender and the other where the author’s gender was unknown. When the author’s gender wasn’t known, the percentage of women-authored papers went up. According to the authors of the study, “this increased representation of female authors more accurately reflects the (US) life sciences academic workforce composition, which is 37% female.”

Bennett Gordon

(Thanks, Kottke.org.)

  • Published on Jan 24, 2008
Tagged with: Academia, academic, Female, Gender, Sexism
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