Gender Bias Impacts Top-Merited Candidates

Expectations of fair competition underlie the assumption that academia is a meritocracy. However, bias may reinforce gender inequality in peer review processes, unfairly eliminating outstanding individuals. Here, we ask whether applicant gender biases peer review in a country top ranked for gender e...

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Main Authors: Emma Rachel Andersson, Carolina E. Hagberg, Sara Hägg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frma.2021.594424/full