Research briefs, news, and event recaps related to Women in STEM.
In our third Industry Partner Workshop on March 21, 2019 our researchers and partners engaged with topics such as gender bias in evaluations, covering in job applications and reporting sexual harassment.
A paper by Sonia Kang and Sarah Kaplan, which recently appeared in a special edition of The Lancet, was mentioned in an article at Quotidianosanità.it.
Sarah Kaplan speaks to the CBC about the lack of diversity in Canada's AI workforce.
Sonia Kang and Sarah Kaplan's research for The Lancet on five gender equality solutions for medicine and science appears in Scitech Europa.
In a review published in a special issue of The Lancet, Sonia Kang and Sarah Kaplan identify five myths that continue to perpetuate gender bias and offer five strategies for improvement.
Research by Sarah Kaplan and Sonia Kang for achieving gender equality in medicine and science is featured by WIRED.
Looking at STEM workers in the oil and gas industry, this study finds significant differences in how men and women conceptualize work-life balance.
Researchers use diary entries and interviews to show how college students’ socialization into the field of engineering leads women to believe that they are a “bad fit."
The subtle elimination of bias in hiring decisions (in this case, via lifelong exposure to gender diversity through raising daughters) is both good for its own sake, and for firm performance.
In male-dominated fields, such as engineering, where women experience rapid mobility into managerial roles, this study suggests that an inverted role hierarchy may disadvantage such women.
