Welcome back everyone!
We hope you had a relaxing summer, and are ready to start a productive and fun academic year. For all our readers in the South of the US, we hope hurricane season is not causing too much trouble and everybody is safe.
Below what we have been reading during the break:
In this preprint, authors examined how gender and nationality impact peer-review at all levels (author, editor and peer-reviewers). They analyzed peer-review outcomes of all of the submissions to the journal eLife between 2012 and 2017, and showed that mixed-gender reviewers teams lead to more equitable outcomes, whereas the likelihood of accepting a paper increases if the gatekeepers (editor and reviewers) share the same country than the authors. On this topic, NPP published a follow up study on gender balance and journal function. It highlights NPP's efforts to increase mindfulness of gender balance in journal function and presents the latest data on women representation at NPP. In addition, this preprint brings to light the persistent under-representation of science led by women in high profile journals. The study spanned 15 high-profile multidisciplinary and neuroscience journals for 2005-2017. Similarly, this study established a bias against female instructors' ratings by students compared to male instructors, and how statements about implicit bias can slightly help prevent this inclination.
In this article, author Dr. Tina M. Iverson briefly exposes her experience applying for grants using her full name or only her initials, and how the rate of successful applications drastically change (up to 5 fold variation) as a function of her name being gender neutral or not...
During the summer, this article became viral on #AcademicTwitter. In it, post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center, Dr. Troy Vettese, explains how sexism is prominent at all levels of Academia. The piece is a long read, but the level of detail and meticulous research makes the message even more powerful...and daunting. Highly recommended.
Outside of Academia, this article published in The Guardian dives deep into the difference between genders regarding "me time" and how this can deeply impact creativity and productivity.
To celebrate Women's Equality Day (celebrated in the US on August 26), PEW Charitable Trusts asked female scientists their opinion on what is needed to recruit and retain the next generation of female scientists. Some of their responses might surprise you!
Catch up with us next week for more articles on #WomenInSTEM.
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