National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track.

ABSTRACT: National randomized experiments and validation studies were conducted on 873 tenure-track faculty (439 male, 434 female) from biology, engineering, economics, and psychology at 371 universities/colleges from 50 US states and the District of Columbia. In the main experiment, 363 faculty members evaluated narrative summaries describing hypothetical female and male applicants for tenure-track assistant professorships who shared the same lifestyle (e.g., single without children, married with children). Applicants' profiles were systematically varied to disguise identically rated scholarship; profiles were counterbalanced by gender across faculty to enable between-faculty comparisons of hiring preferences for identically qualified women versus men. Results revealed a 2:1 preference for women by

SUBMITTER: Williams WM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4418903 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature