Source: www.theguardian.com/education/2015/feb/24/sexism-women-in-university-academics-feminism Quotes: “Our universities are highly sexist institutions. Women are outnumbered and relegated to junior posts. More than 60% of academics are men, and about 80% of professors. Official statistics show that more women are on temporary contracts than
WISE@QMUL: Prof. Gina Rippon on Neurotrash, Neurosexism, and Neuronews
Prof. Gina Rippon (Aston University) will deliver a lecture entitled “Neurotrash, Neurosexism, Neuronews – their role in understanding gender differences” to take place 5pm-6pm on Wednesday, 25 February 2015, in the Fogg Lecture Theatre, free and open to all (RSVP: http://goo.gl/f5D6eG).
Guardian: Female academics face sexist bias in student evaluations
Source: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2015/feb/13/female-academics-huge-sexist-bias-students Quotes: “The strength of this unconscious bias is quite astonishing – even for a relatively objective measure such as promptness, students rated a “female” professor 3.55 out of 5 and a “male” professor 4.35, despite the fact that
Schmidt’s Data Visualisations of Gendered Language in Teacher Evaluations
Source: benschmidt.org/profGender
NYTimes: Women Doing Office Housework
In a NYTimes article (6 Feb 2015), Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant write on women doing “office housework”. Quotes from the article: “Women help more but benefit less from it. … When a man offers to help, we shower him