‘Women’s disciplines’ get lower scores than male-dominated fields

Female and male academics alike suffer from apparent bias against female-dominated fields such as education and nursing, study suggests

Published on
April 16, 2024
Last updated
April 22, 2024
Woman busker playing the harp on O'Connell Street, Dublin city centre
Source: iStock/Derick Hudson

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Print headline: Academy biased against ‘women’s disciplines’

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Reader's comments (3)

PBRF is biased and flawed? And in other news: water is wet.
Why do you have a photo of a person in a dress playing a harp and busking to accompany a story about gendered attitudes towards research outputs?
"It’s not against the individual woman; it’s against the subject areas that are dominated by women.” Maybe encourage more men to feel confident that they will not be discriminated against if they want to work in 'female' areas?

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