Study Abstracts Rated as Higher Quality with Male Authors
A scientist’s gender can have a big impact on how other
researchers perceive his or her work, according to a new study.
Young scholars rated publications supposedly written by male
scientists as higher quality than identical work identified with female
authors.
The research found that graduate students in communication
-- both men and women -- showed significant bias against study abstracts they
read whose authors had female names like “Brenda Collins” or “Melissa Jordan.”