National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 5360-5365

  Williams, Wendy M ^a   Ceci, Stephen J ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Faculty hiring; Gender bias; Hiring bias; Underrepresentation of women; Women in science

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIVORCED PARENT; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FAMILY LEAVE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MARRIED PERSON; OCCUPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY; VALIDATION STUDY; JOB FINDING; ORGANIZATION; SCIENCE; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

ACADEMIES AND INSTITUTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOB APPLICATION; LIFE STYLE; MALE; SCIENCE; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 84928659831     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1418878112     Document Type: Article

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