{"id":354,"date":"2011-02-08T09:58:19","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T17:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/?p=354"},"modified":"2011-02-08T09:58:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T17:58:19","slug":"understanding-current-causes-of-women%e2%80%99s-underrepresentation-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/understanding-current-causes-of-women%e2%80%99s-underrepresentation-in-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding current causes of women\u2019s underrepresentation in science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/blog\/2011\/feb\/08\/sexual-discrimination-women-scientists-institutional\" target=\"_blank\">The underrepresentation of women in science may mean that discrimination against female researchers is  &#8220;institutional,&#8221;<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/blog\/2011\/feb\/08\/sexual-discrimination-women-scientists-institutional\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a>says the <em>Guardian<\/em>&#8216;s Alice Bell. A new study published in <em>PNAS<\/em> suggests  science is &#8220;stuck in the past&#8221; when it comes to women and is focusing on  the wrong issues in order to get past the problem, she adds. The  researchers \u2014 Cornell University&#8217;s Stephen Ceci and Wendy Williams \u2014  reviewed 20 years of data on gender discrimination in science and they  say too much attention has been focused on discrimination when women  apply for jobs or funding. Instead, they argue that the focus should be  shifted to making changes in education and policy that &#8220;reflect the  challenges faced by women interested in building a long-term career in  science,&#8221; Bell says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/PNAS_Ceci_2011.pdf\">PNAS_Ceci_2011<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The underrepresentation of women in science may mean that discrimination against female researchers is &#8220;institutional,&#8221; says the Guardian&#8216;s Alice Bell. A new study published in PNAS suggests science is &#8220;stuck in the past&#8221; when it comes to women and is focusing on the wrong issues in order to get past &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[26,36,48,49,19],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/womengs\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<br />
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