Editorial:
From USA Today [1]:
Women are nominated for research prizes just as frequently as men, however unconscious bias and men running prize panels seems to be swaying award outcomes, suggests the study in the current Social Studies of Science journa [2]l.
Varying widely by discipline, women receiveabout 40% of all doctorates [3]in science (around 70% of psychology degrees but less in other fields) and engineering (about 10%), and have long suffered from lower odds of becoming full professors or attaining other markers of prestige in those fields.
"A large body of social science research finds that work done by women is perceived as less important or valuable that that done by men," begins the study led by sociologist Anne Lincoln of Southern Methodist University in Dallas. In their research, the study authors looked at award patterns from 13 scientific and medical societies from 1991 (206 awards) to 2010 (296 awards).
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Source:
USA Today
URL:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2012/03/women-scientists-shafted-on-research-prizes-matilda-effect/1#.T4JY95lDuUo
Date:
April 8, 2012
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