Assessing Gender Bias in Particle Physics and Social Science Recommendations for Academic Jobs
We investigated gender bias in letters of recommendation as a possible cause of the under-representation of women in Experimental Particle Physics (EPP), where about 15% of faculty are female -- well below the 60% level in psychology and sociology. We analyzed 2,206 letters in EPP and these social s...
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| Abstract | We investigated gender bias in letters of recommendation as a possible cause of the under-representation of women in Experimental Particle Physics (EPP), where about 15% of faculty are female -- well below the 60% level in psychology and sociology. We analyzed 2,206 letters in EPP and these social sciences using standard lexical measures as well as two new measures: author status and an open-ended search for gendered language. In contrast to former studies, women were not depicted as more communal, less agentic, or less standout. Lexical measures revealed few gender differences in either discipline. The open-ended analysis revealed disparities favoring women in social science and men in EPP. However, female EPP candidates were characterized as "brilliant" in nearly three times as many letters as men. |
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| AbstractList | Social Sciences 11, no. 2: 74. (2022) We investigated gender bias in letters of recommendation as a possible cause
of the under-representation of women in Experimental Particle Physics (EPP),
where about 15% of faculty are female -- well below the 60% level in psychology
and sociology. We analyzed 2,206 letters in EPP and these social sciences using
standard lexical measures as well as two new measures: author status and an
open-ended search for gendered language. In contrast to former studies, women
were not depicted as more communal, less agentic, or less standout. Lexical
measures revealed few gender differences in either discipline. The open-ended
analysis revealed disparities favoring women in social science and men in EPP.
However, female EPP candidates were characterized as "brilliant" in nearly
three times as many letters as men. We investigated gender bias in letters of recommendation as a possible cause of the under-representation of women in Experimental Particle Physics (EPP), where about 15% of faculty are female -- well below the 60% level in psychology and sociology. We analyzed 2,206 letters in EPP and these social sciences using standard lexical measures as well as two new measures: author status and an open-ended search for gendered language. In contrast to former studies, women were not depicted as more communal, less agentic, or less standout. Lexical measures revealed few gender differences in either discipline. The open-ended analysis revealed disparities favoring women in social science and men in EPP. However, female EPP candidates were characterized as "brilliant" in nearly three times as many letters as men. |
| Author | Macy, M W Ceci, S J Williams-Ceci, S Bernstein, R H Cameron, C J Williams, W M |
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