A new article on CNN by psychology professors, Wendy Williams and Stephen Ceci, boldly proclaims that gender bias in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is a myth. Their research has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Unfortunately, their work has a flawed methodological premise and their conclusions do not match their study design. … Continue reading The Myth About Women in Science? Bias in the Study of Gender Inequality in STEM
By Zuleyka Zevallos High heel shoes were once a status symbol for powerful men, from horse riding soldiers in 16th Century Persia, to European aristocrats in the 17th Century. Since the Enlightenment period, heels became associated with “irrational” fashion and pornography, and so “impractical” shoes became a symbol of femininity. What changed? Today’s post examines … Continue reading What The Sociology of Shoes Says About Gender Inequality
On Thursday 23 May 2019, I attended at the Sydney University Law School Beyond Punishment Seminar Series: Aboriginal Women in the Criminal Justice Network. The speakers discussed data on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in prison, and programs to support them in the state of New South Wales (NSW). ‘Aboriginal’ women in the context … Continue reading Racial and Gender Justice for Aboriginal Women in Prison
Storify is closing and over the coming weeks, I will be migrating my posts to my blog. This is an archive of my article first published on Storify on 7 March 2017. Having recently created two issues of gender inequity, March for Science made their third foray into inappropriate gennder commentary less than a week … Continue reading March for Science: Reproducing Inequality
Storify is closing and over the coming weeks, I will be migrating my posts to my blog. This is an archive of my article first published on Storify on 23 February 2017. On 23 February 2017, the March for Science DC Twitter account attempted a discussion on an important equity and diversity issue: the gender … Continue reading March for Science: Gender Equity and Diversity
Sociology of Gender Bias in Science
Science Inequality in the News: Avoiding Dangerous Gender Narratives in STEM
This page is a resource explaining general sociological concepts of sex and gender. The examples I cover are focused on experiences of otherness.
You may have read in late September that the ratio of women receiving Royal Society funding has “plummeted from one in three in 2010 to one in 20 this year.” While the Society also awards the Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships to early career women researchers, this award exists to boost women’s participation in science, not to augment or mask … Continue reading Science Fellowships and Institutional Gender Bias in STEM
Storify is closing and over the coming weeks, I will be migrating my posts to my blog. This is an archive of my article first published on Storify on 24 September 2014. In September 2014, the United Nations, the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, and The Rockefeller Foundation published a study on the … Continue reading Women and Girls on Film: “Inequality is Rampant”
The Other Sociologist 