Gender bias in publications?

Posted by on January 22, 2008; This entry is filed under Uncategorized.
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Check out this post. I found it via Research Blogging. I’m going to try out the RSS when they get it up and see if it’s worth it….

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  1. Forrest January 23rd, 2008 at 12:27 pm

    It is possible that the anonymity of the submitters is masking other factors that may or may not be related to their sex. Academic credentials, etc.

  2. agnostic January 23rd, 2008 at 2:22 pm

    I read about this at SB blog Living the Scientist Life, and read the paper. In short, there is no info on the sex make-up of the judges, referees, editors, etc., so there is no inference to be drawn about sexism. For all we know, female reviewers stopped being so hard on their same-sex competition. 
     
    http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/01/women_science_and_writing.php#commentsArea

  3. EW January 28th, 2008 at 9:35 am

    How exactly do they make submitters anonymous? A single self-reference says at least which lab the submitter is from.

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