New research may provide insight as to why, despite progress over the last few decades, women remain underrepresented in math-heavy majors and professions. In an article published in the January issue ...
In January 2019, Jade Alburo, librarian for Southeast Asian and Pacific Island studies at UCLA, wrote a Twitter thread that recounted a patron’s experience searching another large academic archive.
This post was authored in collaboration with Chiara Terzo, a research fellow at the Italian Institute of Technology (Center for Translational Neurophysiology of Speech and Communication). Despite ...
However convinced we may be that science is not just for men, the concept of science remains much more strongly associated with masculinity than with femininity in people's minds. This automatic bias, ...
Despite decades of efforts to promote gender equality in the workplace, women are still underrepresented in careers where success is perceived to depend on high-level intelligence. For example, women ...
A study shows that recruitment of women is affected when members of a scientific evaluation committee deny that gender discrimination is a problem. (Courtesy: iStock/skynesher) Members of scientific ...
Implicit bias is a term that's being used with increasing frequency, and you may nod your head when you hear it but not fully understand it. So, what is implicit bias, exactly? Psychologists define it ...
Scholars have warned that the framing of racial "achievement gaps" in tests scores, grades, and other education outcomes may perpetuate racial stereotypes and encourage people to explain the gaps as ...
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