Gender inclusion and fit in STEM

T Schmader - Annual Review of Psychology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Despite progress made toward increasing women's interest and involvement in science,
technology, engineering, and math (STEM), women continue to be underrepresented and …

Gender bias in academia: A lifetime problem that needs solutions

A Llorens, A Tzovara, L Bellier, I Bhaya-Grossman… - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
Despite increased awareness of the lack of gender equity in academia and a growing
number of initiatives to address issues of diversity, change is slow, and inequalities remain …

Gender and retention patterns among US faculty

K Spoon, N LaBerge, KH Wapman, S Zhang… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Women remain underrepresented among faculty in nearly all academic fields. Using a
census of 245,270 tenure-track and tenured professors at United States–based PhD …

COVID-19 disruptions disproportionately affect female academics

T Deryugina, O Shurchkov, J Stearns - AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2021 - aeaweb.org
The rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent countermeasures disrupted
economic activity around the world. We investigate the effects of COVID-19 disruptions on …

Masculine defaults: Identifying and mitigating hidden cultural biases.

S Cheryan, HR Markus - Psychological Review, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Understanding and remedying women's underrepresentation in majority-male fields and
occupations require the recognition of a lesser-known form of cultural bias called masculine …

STEM faculty who believe ability is fixed have larger racial achievement gaps and inspire less student motivation in their classes

EA Canning, K Muenks, DJ Green, MC Murphy - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
An important goal of the scientific community is broadening the achievement and
participation of racial minorities in STEM fields. Yet, professors' beliefs about the fixedness of …

The gender-equality paradox in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education

G Stoet, DC Geary - Psychological science, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The underrepresentation of girls and women in science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics (STEM) fields is a continual concern for social scientists and policymakers …

Gender in the twenty-first century

M Bertrand - AEA Papers and proceedings, 2020 - pubs.aeaweb.org
We study how childhood exposure to a nontraditional family (a working married mother, a
married mother that is the primary breadwinner, or a non-married mother) affects gender role …

Gender stereotypes can explain the gender-equality paradox

T Breda, E Jouini, C Napp, G Thebault - Proceedings of the National …, 2020 - pnas.org
The so-called “gender-equality paradox” is the fact that gender segregation across
occupations is more pronounced in more egalitarian and more developed countries. Some …

[HTML][HTML] On the trajectory of discrimination: A meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions

M Schaerer, C Du Plessis, MHB Nguyen… - … Behavior and Human …, 2023 - Elsevier
A preregistered meta-analysis, including 244 effect sizes from 85 field audits and 361,645
individual job applications, tested for gender bias in hiring practices in female-stereotypical …