Gender in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics: Issues, causes, solutions

TES Charlesworth, MR Banaji - Journal of Neuroscience, 2019 - Soc Neuroscience
The landscape of gender in education and the workforce has shifted over the past decades:
women have made gains in representation, equitable pay, and recognition through awards …

Boosting the sustainable representation of women in STEM with evidence-based policy initiatives

CA Moss-Racusin, ES Pietri… - Policy Insights from …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Women are missing from Science, Technology, Education, and Mathematics (STEM) fields,
undermining intellectual inclusivity, meritocracy goals, national competitiveness, and high …

The gender gap in self-promotion

CL Exley, JB Kessler - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We run a series of experiments involving over 4,000 online participants and over 10,000
school-aged youth. When individuals are asked to subjectively describe their performance …

The missing women in STEM? Assessing gender differentials in the factors associated with transition to first jobs

S Sassler, J Glass, Y Levitte, KM Michelmore - Social science research, 2017 - Elsevier
Women remain underrepresented in the STEM workforce. We assess explanations for
women's underrepresentation in STEM jobs, focusing on a cohort that came of age in the …

The gender gap in confidence: Expected but not accounted for

CL Exley, K Nielsen - American Economic Review, 2024 - pubs.aeaweb.org
We investigate how the gender gap in confidence affects the views that evaluators (eg,
employers) hold about men and women. We find the confidence gap is contagious, causing …

Gender stereotypes in deliberation and team decisions

K Coffman, CB Flikkema, O Shurchkov - Games and Economic Behavior, 2021 - Elsevier
We explore how groups deliberate and decide on ideas in an experiment with
communication. We find that gender biases play a significant role in which group members …

[PDF][PDF] Reducing gender bias in STEM

S Kong, K Carroll, D Lundberg, P Omura… - MIT Science Policy …, 2020 - researchgate.net
Women continue to be underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math
(STEM). Gender discrimination and gender bias reinforce cultural stereotypes about women …

Computer science skills across China, India, Russia, and the United States

P Loyalka, OL Liu, G Li, I Chirikov… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
We assess and compare computer science skills among final-year computer science
undergraduates (seniors) in four major economic and political powers that produce …

[HTML][HTML] How the demographic composition of academic science and engineering departments influences workplace culture, faculty experience, and retention risk

EE Griffith, N Dasgupta - Social Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Although on average women are underrepresented in academic science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM) departments at universities, an underappreciated fact …

Gendered behavior as a disadvantage in open source software development

B Vedres, O Vasarhelyi - EPJ Data Science, 2019 - epjds.epj.org
Women are severely marginalized in software development, especially in open source. In
this article we argue that disadvantage is more due to gendered behavior than to categorical …