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 differences in peer reviewed grant applications, awards, and amounts: a systematic review and meta-analysis

KB Schmaling, SA Gallo - Research integrity and peer review, 2023 - Springer
Background Differential participation and success in grant applications may contribute to
women's lesser representation in the sciences. This study's objective was to conduct a …

Systemic racial disparities in funding rates at the National Science Foundation

CY Chen, SS Kahanamoku, A Tripati, RA Alegado… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Concerns about systemic racism at academic and research institutions have increased over
the past decade. Here, we investigate data from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a …

[HTML][HTML] Rebuild the Academy: Supporting academic mothers during COVID-19 and beyond

RW Fulweiler, SW Davies, JF Biddle, AJ Burgin… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The issues facing academic mothers have been discussed for decades. Coronavirus
Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is further exposing these inequalities as womxn scientists who …

Impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the productivity of academics who mother

S Kasymova, JMS Place, DL Billings… - Gender, Work & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of the study is to document how academics who mother have reorganized work and
childcare since the beginning of the coronavirus (COVID‐19) pandemic in the United States …

Perceptions of barriers to career progression for academic women in STEM

C O'Connell, M McKinnon - Societies, 2021 - mdpi.com
Gender equity in academia is a long-standing struggle. Although common to all disciplines,
the impacts of bias and stereotypes are particularly pronounced in science, technology …

US women faculty in the social sciences also face gender inequalities

BJ Casad, CE Garasky, TR Jancetic, AK Brown… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
There is a national interest in United States women's underrepresentation in science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM); however, gender inequality in the social …

Promoting equity in the peer review process of journal publication

SF Bancroft, K Ryoo, M Miles - Science Education, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
While there is evidence to support the existence of identity‐based disparities, inequities, and
biases in the academic journal peer‐review process, little research supports the presence of …

Social justice, community engagement, and undergraduate STEM education: participatory science as a teaching tool

HD Vance-Chalcraft, KC Smith, J Allen… - CBE—Life Sciences …, 2024 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Social justice is increasingly being seen as relevant to the science curriculum. We examine
the intersection of participatory science, social justice, and higher education in the United …

Exploring gender bias in six key domains of academic science: An adversarial collaboration

SJ Ceci, S Kahn, WM Williams - Psychological Science in …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
We synthesized the vast, contradictory scholarly literature on gender bias in academic
science from 2000 to 2020. In the most prestigious journals and media outlets, which …