Organized Dogmatism Controls the Message about Gender Bias in the Academy

Organized Dogmatism Controls the Message about Gender Bias in the Academy(journalofcontroversialideas.org)

30 points by mpweiher 6 days ago | 5 comments

Yep, the bias is not the way they want you to think it is:

"National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track"

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4418903/

emj 6 days ago |

I want to note that if you read the paper carefully you can see that it does highlight some of the things that are still troublesome. Drop out rate, pay, evaluation and other stuff. As someone who believes this is still an issue for women, I can also accept that there can be a bias against men. Both things can be true and the paper does highlight this.

delichon 6 days ago |

There was a tweet last week from UN Women:

  Of all journalists killed in 2021, 11% were women. In 2020, this was 6%. Source: @unesco. On the International Day to #EndImpunity for Crimes against journalists, let us say out loud: STOP TARGETING WOMEN JOURNALISTS."

It was removed after being widely mocked. But I think it expresses a common view that if 11% of victims are women, that's a horrible inequity ... against women.

readthenotes1 6 days ago | |

I'm reminded of a promotional interview on NPR wherein the woman running a women's aid charity in a Central American country decried the machismo culture because the murder rate has increased for women in the country.

When I stopped driving, I looked up the comparative change for men, and it was nearly twice the growth for women.

She should have been praising the machismo culture protecting women against the increased violence at a disproportionate rate, but that wouldn't sound good...

soco 6 days ago | |

How many of the journalists are women? Are those women journalists also going to war zones? The numbers above are pointless without context.