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Female applicants to postdoctoral positions in geosciences were nearly half
Female applicants to postdoctoral positions in geosciences were nearly half
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2023-06-22
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Female applicants to postdoctoral positions in geosciences were nearly half as likely to receive excellent letters of recommendation, compared with their male counterparts. Christopher Intagliata reports.
As in many other fields, gender bias is widespread in the sciences. Men score higher starting salaries, have more mentoring (指导), and have better odds of being hired. Studies show they’re also perceived as more competent than women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields. And new research reveals that men are more likely to receive excellent letters of recommendation, too.
"Say, you know, this is the best student I’ve ever had," says Kuheli Dutt, a social scientist and diversity officer at Columbia University’s Lamont campus. " Compare those excellent letters with a merely good letter: ’The candidate was productive, or intelligent, or a solid scientist or something that’s clearly solid praise,’ but nothing that singles out the candidate as exceptional or one of a kind. "
Dutt and her colleagues studied more than 1, 200 letters of recommendation for postdoctoral positions in geoscience. They were all edited for gender and other identifying information, so Dutt and her team could assign them a score without knowing the gender of the student. They found that female applicants were only half as likely to get outstanding letters, compared with their male counterparts. That includes letters of recommendation from all over the world, and written by, yes, men and women. The findings are in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Dutt says they were not able to evaluate the actual scientific qualifications of the applicants using the data in the files. But she says the results still suggest women in geoscience are at a potential disadvantage from the very beginning of their careers starting with those less than outstanding letters of recommendation.
"We’re not trying to assign blame or criticize anyone or call anyone consciously sexist. Rather, the point is to use the results of this study to open up meaningful dialogues on implicit gender bias, be it at a departmental level or an institutional level or even a discipline level." Which may lead to some recommendations for the letter writers themselves. [br] What does Dutt aim to do with her study?
选项
A、Raise recommendation writers’ awareness of gender bias in their letters.
B、Open up fresh avenues for women post-doctors to join in research work.
C、Alert women researchers to all types of gender bias in the STEM disciplines.
D、Start a public discussion on how to raise women’s status in academic circles.
答案
A
解析
推理判断题。最后一段提到,达特的研究目的是利用这项研究结果对隐含的性别偏见开启有意义的对话,无论是在部门层面,还是在机构层面,甚至是在学科层面。这可以给写推荐信的人提供一些建议。由此可见,达特的研究是为了提高写推荐信的人对性别偏见的认识,故答案为A)。
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