Archives: gender bias

Saturday, January 16, 2016

Continued evidence of gender bias in teaching evaluations

Teaching ratings form one of the inputs for decisions regarding tenure and promotion, teaching awards, and sometimes merit evaluations at Universities. But what do they actually measure?  For many years, there have been complaints that they are a better index of grade expectations and instructor gender than actual teaching effectiveness. Yet... More

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Yes, bias still exists…

A couple of months ago, W. Williams & S. Ceci caused a flurry of activity in response to research they published in PNAS suggesting that if anything, the gender bias in science was in favour of women, or at least it was in simulated hirings in the lab.  Although there has already been considerable... More

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