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Is there gender bias in peer review?
... have chosen. In our specific case, we were looking into if gender matters for how reviewers are chosen. We use one ... both genders, preferentially chose reviewers of their same gender. Chris - That’s interesting, isn’t it? So we have ... a difference in the way female editors prefer their own gender than the way male editors prefer their own gender. It ...
Gendering primates
... and findings... Frans - Yeah, I think so, because the gender is the cultural side of the sex binary and, you know, ... It's not really a binary, it's like an almost binary, and gender is more the cultural expression, the social norms, the education, all the cultural overlays. Gender is usually divided in masculine and feminine terms and ...
How long before science is gender neutral?
... of change, how long will it be before we arrive at gender parity? Surprisingly, this is not well delineated, so ... Medical Colleges because they have historic data on gender at different career stages going back for over a ... I wanted to project how long it would take to get to gender parity, which is that 50 50 split between men and ...
Gender-specific drugs?
... proposed that treatments for certain diseases should be gender-specific, following the discovery that male and female ... diseases has also been shown to be affected by a person's gender, but the relationship between gender and metabolism has so far rarely been considered. In a ...
Are women better multi-taskers than men?
... Whenever I give a talk people often ask about gender differences. In any of our datasets we tend to find that there are very, very few gender differences and, as far as I know, there are no gender differences in multitasking. Chris - Where does this ...
Sexing the Stegosaurus
... suggested, including species differences, dinosaur age or gender. Whilst studying at Princeton, Evan Saitta carefully ... if it was to be believed they were different species. Gender variance was thus concluded as the only possible ... The next stage was to determine the plate type for each gender and for this Saitta looked to the animal kingdom. ...
Men vs. Women: Spatial ability differences due to nurture?
... better at spatial awareness than women. But is this gender difference a result of nature or nurture? A recent ... and the Karbi tribes. For the Khasi tribe there was no gender difference in ability to solve the problem - men and ... spacial ability test. In contrast, the Karbi tribe saw a gender difference. Karbi men solved the problem, on ...
Gender Bias in Peer Review
... with themselves and those characteristics include gender and nationality. Chris - That's quite a claim. So how ... reviewed by all male reviewers versus reviewers of mixed gender and how successful they were when reviewed by ... the paper but it was influenced by the demographics by the gender and by the nationality of the authors and by the ...
Is that face male or female? Look into my eyes, not around the eyes...
... a problem because we have so many other cues about the gender of the face's owner. Features like hair, clothing ... of the screen. The subjects were asked to assign a gender to each face. What they found was that, while gender judgements were consistent for those faces in the ...
Men are less easily disgusted than women
... differences and that will run the whole gambit across gender and age. We do tend to see that if you give a survey ... actually inform how we make moral decisions. The strongest gender differences are in the gross out kind of disgust. ... university. We also found that there really were very few gender differences between men and women in their disgust. We ...
Can technology help buy the best gift?
... be shopping on Christmas eve, that’s not necessarily a gender thing. Chris - Yeah, I’m one of them. Alex - Me too, ... ask you a bit about who you’re buying for; their age and gender; what they’re into, and then we serve shorter bursts ... depends on the questions we’ve asked. There are age and gender categorisations. The relationship label is quite key ...
Coronavirus: sex differences in the spotlight
... recent years: is enough being done to account for sex and gender in disease and medicine? Not enough, says Dr Sabine Oertelt-Prigione, the chair of sex and gender-sensitive medicine at Radboud University in the ... are actually mandating to include information on sex and gender in grant proposals — this is implemented to very ...
Women take the cautious approach to scientific publication
... venues… Vincent - Many studies have shown that there's a gender gap in science; that there is less women than ... what we try to do is to try to understand a bit more this gender gap in science by looking at women and men's ... we need to think about how to mitigate to improving this gender gap that exists. Chris - And what sort of strategies ...
AI and coronavirus: limited by bias
... endures, the socio-economic implications of race and gender in contracting Covid-19 and dying from it have been ... by learning from its past hires, the system mimicked the gender-bias of its makers by downgrading resumes from women. ... that has long preceded the pandemic. When it comes to gender diversity, a recent review found that of 927 trials ...
Gender divide: why females outlive males
... which tells different tissues to develop to a particular gender. What you find in fruit flies is each cell ... counts how many X chromosomes it has and specifies gender that way. So, we could harness this particular feature ... The guts of male and female fruit flies age differently. Gender divide: why females outlive males ...
The chemistry of equality
... the highest levels of the profession. While the issue of gender equality is a hot topic in many professions, there are ... unique to chemistry. Unlike other disciplines, the gender balance at undergraduate level is almost equal – ... 4 . How the Royal Society of Chemistry is breaking the gender barrier... The chemistry of equality ...
Gender and society
... to with a male pronoun, though presumably God has no gender. One of the dominant scientific institutions, the ... the charge sheet... When it comes to the politics of gender, both the religious and the scientific establishments ... have some hard questions to ask of themselves... Gender and society ...
Post natal depression and men
... depression. Both cases were identical apart from the gender of the person who was suffering; in one case it was a ... men can suffer from postnatal depression is because of gender role stereotypes. We are socialised as a society to ... do is to ensure that all parents, irrespective of their gender, are screened for mental illnesses or potential mental ...
Men and women may feel pain differently
... males and females and could translate to humans leading to gender specific painkillers. "This is the first ever ... the population that it could have helped." Now that this gender difference has been identified it could lead to gender specific, or 'his n' hers' painkillers, according to ...
Did cave-men hunt and cave-women cook?
... can divide people according to certain rules say, their gender or their age, or something like that then it might ... the cave art isn't very easily identifiable in terms of gender. There was one theory that one guy came up with a few ...
Do women have better memories than men?
... performance in women and most of the remainder found no gender difference. So, there does seem to be a bit of ... women might have slightly better memories but like all gender differences it's a very small effect. So this ...
Teens and social distancing
... social distancing guidelines. Katie - Before we split the gender, how are teens doing in general, according to your ... the environment you find yourself in. Katie - And why the gender difference? Liat - Many studies have shown that males ... follow the guidelines. And it's interesting that there's a gender divide in how the original message has been perceived ...
Disturbing findings from coastal science fieldwork survey
... that kind of things. Have you experienced or witnessed any gender discrimination? We did it kind of as a paper survey at ... question about whether or not people had experienced gender discrimination focused quite overwhelmingly on field ...
Critter of the Month - Clown Anemone Fish
A gender-bending critter reveals what life is like as a male ... to working on them. Peter Buston, Boston University A gender-bending critter reveals what life is like as a male ...
Can Facebook predict your personality?
... you realise. A new study used 'likes' to predict users gender, ethnicity, sexuality and personality. We were joined ... you realise. A new study used 'likes' to predict users gender, sexuality and personality Can Facebook predict your ...