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13 Nov 2017 | 08:00 GMT

Boyfriends and husbands may put female researchers at a hiring disadvantage

Posted by Karen Kaplan | Categories: Career paths, Careers articles, Faculty, In the news, news, Postdoc, Postgraduate, Relationships, Research, US

Boyfriends and husbands may put female researchers at a hiring disadvantage

Female candidates’ – but not male candidates’ — relationship status was a primary consideration in hiring committees’ discussions and decisions, according to study co-author Lauren Rivera, an associate professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She found that committee members assumed that heterosexual female candidates whose partners or husbands held academic or high-status jobs could not relocate for the job, and excluded them from offers when the committee had viable male or unpartnered female options. Yet, she says, committees — whose members included women — rarely discussed male applicants’ relationship status and assumed that those candidates’ partners or wives would be able to move for the position if an offer were made.  Read more

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  • paul smaglik
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28 Mar 2017 | 13:00 GMT

Women in science: Fight the brain drain

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Academia, Blog, Career paths, Diversity, In the news, Industry, Mobility, Research

Women in science: Fight the brain drain

Last week, Julia Etulain was sitting in a lobby of a hotel in Paris, far from her hometown of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She explained her research energetically, occasionally apologising for near-perfect, short-sentence, staccato English.  Read more

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  • L'Oreal
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  • paris
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  • travel
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15 Dec 2016 | 13:00 GMT

Do you think your career was harder as a woman in science?

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: #NJCELondon, Academia, Career paths, Competition, Diversity, Events, Faculty, Perspectives, Research, Scientists on the move

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  • Naturejobs
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  • STEM
  • women
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08 Jul 2016 | 12:00 GMT

How to combat implicit bias

Posted by Jack Leeming | Categories: Ask the expert, Career paths, Communication, Data, Diversity, Faculty, In the news, Mobility, Relationships, Research

How to combat implicit bias

Guest contributor Viviane Callier  … Read more

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18 Aug 2015 | 18:00 GMT

Social media: Handling casual sexism

Posted by Julie Gould | Categories: Communication

Social media: Handling casual sexism

Guest contributor Virginia Schutte   … Read more

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26 Sep 2012 | 15:39 GMT

Sexism in science means men more likely to get hired

Posted by Catherine de Lange | Categories: People Management

It is no secret that women are vastly underrepresented in many scientific fields, particularly the further you look up the career ladder. The explanations for this disparity vary, but perhaps one of the most common arguments is that women feel forced to choose between a family and their career, and leave science early whilst men continue to progress.  Read more

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