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Female applicants to postdoctoral positions in geoscience were nearly half a
Female applicants to postdoctoral positions in geoscience were nearly half a
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2025-04-02
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Female applicants to postdoctoral positions in geoscience 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 say 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 did Dutt and her colleagues do with the more than 1,200 letters of recommendation?
选项
A、They asked unbiased scholars to evaluate them.
B、They invited women professionals to edit them.
C、They assigned them randomly to reviewers.
D、They deleted all information about gender.
答案
D
解析
本题可参照文章的第4段。从文章的第4段可知,Dutt和她的同事们研究了超过1 200封地球科学博士后职位推荐信。这些推荐信里的性别和其他身份信息都被编辑过,所以Dutt和她的团队能在不知道学生性别的情况下为他们打分。据此可知,D项正确。A项不正确,文中是说他们无法评估文件中使用数据的申请人的实际科学资格。B、C两项在文中未提及。D项与文章的意思相符,因此D项为正确答案。
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