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Reposting this article from 2015 that appeared in Science magazine. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6219/262
Reposting this article from 2015 that appeared in Science magazine. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6219/262
As part of our In-House Education mission, we host Journal Club discussions on issues around gender inequality. Today Dr. Anne…
A tehetséget feltételező tudományágakban alulreprezentáltak a nők Rengeteg cikk és tanulmány születik abban a témában, hogy a nő…
Hot Topic: Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines. Science, 347(6219), 262-265
"The gender imbalance in STEM subjects dominates current debates about women’s underrepresentation in academia. However, women…
Ch-ch-check it out: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6219/262.short
Check out this interesting recent research in Science, on gender bias in different fields ("Expectations of brilliance underlie…
A new commentary in the WSJ based on research published in Science discusses gender and minority imbalance in STEM. The…
Is the underrepresentation of females in some academic disciplines merely caused by internal and external preconceptions? The…
"women underrepresented in fields whose practitioners believe that innate talent is [required]" http://buff.ly/1DYhkr6 #cogSci #i…
Join us for our first meeting of the semester this coming Tuesday February 10 at 5 pm in Venable 2204. Desiree will lead a…
Science Magazine: 16 January 2015: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6219/262.abstract
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"Surveys revealed that some fields are believed to require attributes such as brilliance and genius, whereas other fields are…
Why are women well represented at the PhD level in some sciences and poorly represented in some humanities? www.sciencemag.org
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A new study shows that women are underrepresented in fields where people believe raw talent (rather than learned skill) is…
#WomenInScience Why do some disciplines have more male researchers than female ones? A new suggests that women tend to choose…
"We hypothesize that, across the academic spectrum, women are underrepresented in fields whose practitioners believe that raw…
Article: Expectations of brilliance underliegender distributions acrossacademic…
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The belief that raw brilliance is required for success combines with cultural stereotypes to decrease academic diversity. [parap…
Some work that Sarah-Jane Leslie presented at Brooklyn Public Philosophers last year is now out in Science. The upshot…
an interesting read on gender distributions in academic fields... http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6219/262.full.pdf www.sci…
בעבודה שפורסמה ב-Science התגלה כי ככל שמאמינים יותר שחייבים להיות גאון בשביל להצליח בתחום, כך יש בתחום פחות נשים. ביצעו משאל על…
Interesting research on how gender stereotypes affect the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields
"NEW PhDs in maths and physics are earned mostly by men, while—in America at least—half of those in molecular biology and…
Certain scientific fields require a special type of brilliance, according to conventional wisdom. And a new study suggests that…
Certain scientific fields require a special type of brilliance, according to conventional wisdom. And a new study suggests that…
Just out in Science: Expectations of Brilliance Underlie Gender Distributions Across Academic…
Very interesting article, and formally shows something I've believed for a long time. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6219…
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Nu finns det ytterligare en anledning att sluta delta i eller sprida myter om att det krävs genialitet för att klara sig bra…
Great article in Science proposing an underlying reason for why women are underrepresented in certain academic fields: "We…
Women and ethnic minorities perceived as less intellectually gifted - this leads to a failure of academic disciplines to…
Downplay "intellectual giftedness" if you want to diversify: women/BAME are perceived as less…
Is it true that women are expected to be talented in biomedical sciences than physical sciences and engineering and that such…
Interesting.... http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6219/262.full?utm_source=email www.sciencemag.org
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6219/262 The gender imbalance in STEM subjects dominates current debates about women’s…
"because women are stereotyped as not possessing such talent" - as well as brain, balls and dick. Motherfucking feminist morons.
From the abstract: We hypothesize that, across the academic spectrum, women are underrepresented in fields whose practitioners…
Men are well... stupid sometimes. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6219/262 www.sciencemag.org
Very interesting piece. Here are the four questions that they used to determine field-specific ability beliefs (putting `philoso…
Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines. From Science www.sciencemag.org