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This headline "Women have substantial advantage in STEM faculty hiring, except when competing against more-accomplished men" over at Frontiers caught my eye this morning. After an admittedly quick read (look, I'm busy, do you want a non-paypal cc processor or not?), I decided it was at least worth a sub. Here's the paper's summary:
Audits of tenure-track hiring reveal faculty prefer to hire female applicants over males. However, audit data do not control for applicant quality, allowing some to argue women are hired at higher rates because they are more qualified. To test this, Williams and Ceci (2015) conducted an experiment demonstrating a preference for hiring women over identically-qualified men. While their findings are consistent with audits, they raise the specter that faculty may prefer women over even more-qualified men, a claim made recently. We evaluated this claim in the present study: 158 faculty ranked two men and one woman for a tenure-track-assistant professorship, and 94 faculty ranked two women and one man. In the former condition, the female applicant was slightly weaker than her two male competitors, although still strong; in the other condition the male applicant was slightly weaker than his two female competitors, although still strong. Faculty of both genders and in all fields preferred the more-qualified men over the slightly-less-qualified women, and they also preferred the stronger women over the slightly-less-qualified man. This suggests that preference for women among identically-qualified applicants found in experimental studies and in audits does not extend to women whose credentials are even slightly weaker than male counterparts. Thus these data give no support to the twin claims that weaker males are chosen over stronger females or weaker females are hired over stronger males.
You may now commence flaming without having RTFA.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday October 23 2015, @04:20PM
What can I do to help Bernie Sanders defeat the coronation of Grand Duchess Clinton?
Well, backing some of these prosecutions of Clinton would help such as classified information on her private email server (as well as a naked bypass of the Freedom of Information Act) or her handling of the Benghazi attacks. I think this is relatively, the easier problem to solve.
What is the status of TPP? What does it contain? What is going to be ratified? What about TTIP and TISA, especially now that CISA is being rammed up our asses?
I'd say here that the private companies benefiting from these rules would be the best targets. There may also be an opportunity to create a Prisoners' Dilemma incentive where the parties involved all renege on the treaties in question.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 24 2015, @03:51AM
Well, backing some of these persecutions of Clinton would help such as classified information on her private email server
We're sick and tired of her damn emails! Trey's real name is Harold. JEB is not even a name. And "The Donald" is more a title than a name. And after her testimony yesterday, Hillary is more than competent. Get used to "President Clinton" again, thanks to the Republican party. She will probably push for more women in STEM.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday October 24 2015, @05:26PM
We're sick and tired of her damn emails!
Too bad. You know if people faced some sort of punishment for doing felonies at this level, there might be less silly scandals to be tired of.
And after her testimony yesterday, Hillary is more than competent. Get used to "President Clinton" again, thanks to the Republican party.
Well, Republicans are remarkably talented at squandering opportunity, I must agree.
She will probably push for more women in STEM.
I have to say that probably almost everyone running for president will push for more women in STEM. It's a no brainer for a photo op.