Tag archive for ‘reports’
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What are your implicit biases?
Project Implicit is a research project at Harvard that has been examining implicit biases since 1998. By going to the project’s website, you can view a demonstration of the tests they use to determine if you have an implicit bias. Here are the most important findings of the project so far: Implicit biases are pervasive. [...]
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Math anxiety learned from adults?
This enlightening article at The Washington Post summarizes recent research showing that math anxiety in elementary school teachers has a profound impact on their students. Disturbingly, by the end of only one school year, “girls taught by a teacher with high math anxiety started to score lower than boys in math.”
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Pay gap for faculty
Inside Higher Ed presents an article on recent research into the persistent gender pay gap in higher education faculty. The story describes a study by Laura Meyers, a doctoral candidate at our own University of Washington. Some highlights from the article: The gender gap in faculty pay cannot be explained completely by the long careers [...]
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Beyond Bias and Barriers
The NAS press has their study on women in science careers, Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering, available online for your reading pleasure. The report was released in 2006. Here’s a description: The United States economy relies on the productivity, entrepreneurship, and creativity of its people. To maintain its [...]
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Universities Urged to Improve Hiring and Advancement of Women
This old Science article sums up some of the results from the National Academy of Sciences’ report Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering. Unfortunately, the report’s results are still pretty accurate four years later.
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To Recruit and Advance
This report, released in the same year as Beyond Bias and Barriers…, focuses specifically on recruitment of female students and faculty, retention of current female students, and advancement of current female faculty in STEM fields. From the NAS description: Although more women than men participate in higher education in the United States, the same is [...]