"Anti-female bias in academic hiring has ended," declare husband and wife social psychologists Wendy Williams and Stephen Ceci in an opinion piece on CNN this week. They just published the results of a survey that they claim suggests women applying for US science faculty positions have a 2:1 advantage over equally qualified men, even in male-dominated fields such as engineering. Yet, while the US National Science Foundation says 40 per cent of doctoral degrees in science and engineering went to women in 2008 – up from 17 per cent in 1976 – their representation in faculty is low: 31 per cent of full-time doctoral science and engineering posts in 2008. Williams...
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