"Women Are Invited to Give Fewer Talks Than Men at Top U.S. Universities"

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'It’s not because they turn down talks more often, or because there aren’t enough women to invite.

A few years ago, Michelle Hebl attended the latest in a series of talks hosted by her department at Rice Univeristy. The speaker was a man, and Hebl realized that she hadn’t heard any female speakers in that series for a while. “Maybe I’m just not thinking about them,” she thought. “Or maybe it’s something we should look at.”
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But as Hebl’s student Christine Nittrouer eventually found, they are opportunities that are predominantly extended to men.
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Nittrouer and her team scanned the websites of the top 50 U.S. universities, as ranked by U.S. News, to build a database of every colloquium speaker from six departments: biology, bioengineering, political science, history, psychology, and sociology. They chose those six to represent a breadth of disciplines, and to exclude departments with either a very low or very high proportion of women. And they found that men gave more than twice as many talks as women: 69 percent versus 31 percent.'

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Female academics of course dominate the podium in certain disciplines, such as womyn's studies, and have no trouble getting research in their almost sole area of interest, that there a fewer women than men in field 'X', published and disseminated (such as the "studies" linked to in this article).

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