From: NPR
Could It Be? Researchers Find A Hiring Bias That Favors Women
May 5, 2015
NPR:
Think, for just a moment, about the last job you applied for.
If you didn’t get the job (apologies), did you get an interview? If not, did you feel some hidden forces, beyond your control, working against you?
Perceived hiring biases against women working in science, technology, engineering and math have been around as long as women have been graduating from STEM programs. From 2008 to 2010, women received the majority of doctorate degrees in life and social sciences but only 32 percent of the open assistant professorships.
Now comes a study that offers something of a counter-narrative — that, given the chance, universities would rather hire women for STEM tenure-track positions.
Read the whole story: NPR
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