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Comment on “Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines”

Year: 2015

Type: letter

Abstract: Leslie et al. (Reports, 16 January 2015, p. 262) concluded that "expectations of brilliance" explained the gender makeup of academic disciplines. We reestimated their models after adding measures of disaggregated Graduate Record Examination scores by field. Our results indicated that female representation among Ph.D. recipients is associated with the field's mathematical content and that faculty beliefs about innate ability were irrelevant.

Source: Science

DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa9632

Authors: Donna K. Ginther, Shulamit Kahn

Institutions: National Bureau of Economic Research, University of Kansas, Boston University

Language: English

Topic: Career Development and Diversity

Subfield: Safety Research

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, Reduced inequalities, Quality education

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging