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Cornell Study: For STEM Tenure Track, Women Twice As Likely To Be Hired As Men

Posted by timothy on from the whose-bias-is-called-bias dept.

_Sharp'r_ writes In the first "empirical study of sexism in faculty hiring using actual faculty members", Cornell University researchers found that when using identical qualifications, but changing the sex of the applicant, "women candidates are favored 2 to 1 over men for tenure-track positions in the science, technology, engineering and math fields." An anonymous reader links to the study itself.

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  1. Re:That's great news! by PopeRatzo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    it was socially unacceptable, at the time, for a woman to be educated.

    Well, there it is. You were able to type those words without irony and still write half a dozen paragraphs as if it had never happened.

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