Women are better than men at science job interviews

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2024-10-15 08:27

Article here. Excerpt:

'An investigation into academic hiring outcomes for biological-science roles has suggested a surprising trend: women who applied for assistant professor positions in North America were more likely to get job offers than were men.
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Overall, women were at an advantage. Two-thirds of women in the sample received at least one job offer compared with half of the men. The advantage is particularly notable because men had slightly more first-author publications in highly ranked journals. “Men had a few more CNS [Cell, Nature, Science] papers, but women were getting more job offers,” Jadavji says.'

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1. Women are actually preferred over men despite producing less on aggregate.
2. Women quoted in the article say they like this state of affairs and wish it were true for other fields too.

From meritocracy to mediocrity. This is how it happens: sexism.

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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2024-10-15 21:51