One Chemistry Professor's Misconceptions about Gender and Scientific Ability: Was It Gender Bias or Gender-Population Bias?

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Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations

IZA DP No. 11000 SEPTEMBER 2017 Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations* This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in teaching evaluations. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset of 19,952 student evaluations of university faculty in a context where students are randomly allocated to female or male instructors. Despite the fact that neither students’ grades nor self-study hours are affected ...

BRWD1 shows its gender bias

Pattabiraman et al. add a subtle and unexpected entry to the long list of differences between the sexes. The researchers discovered that a protein that controls gene expression in maturing sperm performs a different function in maturing oocytes, where it promotes chromosome condensation and stability (1). Once meiosis is complete in male mammals, the resulting cells, known as spermatids, underg...

Gender bias in cardiovascular advertisements.

RATIONALE Women with cardiovascular disease are treated less aggressively than men. The reasons for this disparity are unclear. Pharmaceutical advertisements may influence physician practices and patient care. AIMS AND OBJECTIVE To determine if female and male patients are equally likely to be featured in cardiovascular advertisements. METHODS We examined all cardiovascular advertisements f...

When Performance Trumps Gender Bias:

We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in hiring, promotion, and job assignments: an “evaluation nudge,” in which people are evaluated jointly rather than separately regarding their future performance. Evaluators are more likely to focus on individual performance in joint than in separate evaluation and on group stereotypes in separate than in joint evaluation, making joint eva...