Please Explain! ... gender gap

Ever heard of Flossie Wong-Staal or Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgin? No? Those were two pretty cool scientists, having a lot of impact on our today's world. And they are by far not the only impressive female researchers! 

However, only 1 out of 3 employees in research&development is female! 

In this episode of "Please Explain!" we looking at this imbalance between male and female researchers, what gender bias has to do with it and how you can yourself help to close the gender gap!

For further reading and full disclosure, here our references: 

- The retracted paper : The association between early career informal mentorship in academic collaborations and junior author performance: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19723-8

- How stereotypes impair women’s careers in science: https://www.pnas.org/content/111/12/4403

- Male researchers’ ‘vague’ language more likely to win grants: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01402-4

- Is blinded review enough? How gendered outcomes arise even under anonymous evaluation: https://www.nber.org/papers/w25759

- The Role of Gender in Scholarly Authorship: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0066212

- Gender disparities in high-quality research revealed by Nature Index journals: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0189136

- Flossie Wong-Staal on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flossie_Wong-Staal

- Article about Flossie Wong-Staals work: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-wednesday-edition-1.5650749/pioneering-hiv-aids-researcher-flossie-wong-staal-remembered-as-strong-woman-in-a-man-s-world-1.5650750

- Definition of gender gap: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/11/the-gender-gap-actually-got-worse-in-2017/

- Numbers of women employed in R&D: http://uis.unesco.org/sites/default/files/documents/fs55-women-in-science-2019-en.pdf

- Gender representation in authorship: http://www.eigenfactor.org/gender/#

- Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students: https://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474

- The Frequency of “Brilliant” and “Genius” in Teaching  Evaluations Predicts the Representation of Women and African Americans across Fields https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0150194

- Double-blind review favours increased representation of female authors https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534707002704

- Practical tips for man to close the gender gap: https://www.themuse.com/advice/9-ways-men-can-should-help-close-gender-pay-gap-at-work

- Gender stereotypes about intellectual ability emerge early and influence children’s interests: https://tinyurl.com/26sc6e7s

- Housework Is an Academic Issue: https://tinyurl.com/bkxf4j7v

- Dorothy Hodkin https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1964/hodgkin/biographical/