A quirky little study tries to show that women professors do less for junior women than their male colleagues do. Fortunately, it doesn’t hold up.
Math skills, the ability to mentally manipulate objects, and self-esteem. Where are men better than women, or women better than men? Where are they the same?
The Research Council of Norway has issued an inspiring new policy to improve gender balance in research institutions and to raise the quality of research by expanding research questions to better cover matters related to sex and gender.
A study of the state of research in Norway over the past 10 years concludes that incentives to increase quantity don’t necessarily harm quality — but they don’t help it, either.
