Su suggerimento di @Giulia Bon.

Rebecca Schuman risponde ad un articolo del New York Times su sessismo e scienza. Un nuovo paper che cerca una risposta al basso numero di donne nell’accademia scientifica. Ritorna la teoria sull’attitudine e sulle scelte educative (una sorta di “Dalla parte delle bambine” parte 2), ma dire così è sessista?

Which inequalities, you ask? Luckily for all of you (and me!), several science bloggers, such as Jonathan Eisen, P.Z. Myers, and Emily Willingham with this magisterial analysis, have already done the heavy lifting and located numerous inconsistencies in the paper. Willingham implores us: “Check out Figure 15 [average number of hours worked per week, by gender]. Go ahead. Just for fun.” (The graph shows women scientists working more.) “And scroll on down to Figure 16 [average number of publications, by gender].” (Men have more publications.) “Look at the salary values on Table 4.” (With precious few exceptions, men make more money.) “Look at Figure 18 [‘Percentage of University of California postdocs who switched away from an emphasis on a career as a research professor as a function of presence of children and gender’].” (A vast gap in genders, with women strongly in the lead.) “I don’t understand how they wrote the paper or the op-ed they did while looking at the same results I see in their paper. … Where I come from,” she concludes, “we call that institutional bias.”