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