We all know that women are underrepresented in STEM and other high-pay, high-prestige positions. Is this the result of gender discrimination, a natural result of biological differences between men and women, a cultural phenomenon, or a more complex set of factors?
In a discussion which touches on primate studies, James Damore’s 2017 Google memo, discrimination research, stereotype threat, the IAT, the motherhood penalty, the wage gap, and our own personal histories, The Multiversity Project attempts to parse out what is causing such great disparities between men and women in the workplace.
Why are women underrepresented in key fields? What causes gendered differences in personality and performance? And how domotherhood and the care of children fit into all this?
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James Damore’s memo: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-Ideological-Echo-Chamber.pdf
Toy selection studies: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2583786/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13596-male-monkeys-prefer-boys-toys/
Gender and math skills: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92881902
Pay drops as women enter fields: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/upshot/as-women-take-over-a-male-dominated-field-the-pay-drops.html
Hiring discrimination research: https://www.igh.cnrs.fr/images/docs/pdf/sex_roles-1999.pdf
Mentorship discrimination: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2063742
Grant funding discrimination: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)32611-4/fulltext
Benefits and drawbacks of assertiveness training for women: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cpsp.12226
Pygmalion Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect
Stereotype threat: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.370.3979&rep=rep1&type=pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat
IAT: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/canada/takeatest.html
Motherhood penalty: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/upshot/a-child-helps-your-career-if-youre-a-man.html
Breast milk and time of day: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091001091757.htm
Breast milk and psychic powers: https://www.sheldrake.org/research/telepathy/apparent-telepathy-between-babies-and-nursing-mothers-a-survey
Effects of daycare on children: https://www.livestrong.com/article/77119-psychological-effects-sending-children-day/
Labour force participation rates: https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2018/06/11/why-people-are-working-longer
Gender differences in gender equal countries: https://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/news-calendar/News_detail/personality-differences-between-the-sexes-are-largest-in-the-most-gender-equal-countries.cid1587162
https://www.thejournal.ie/gender-equality-countries-stem-girls-3848156-Feb2018/
Video games and spatial skills: http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/spence/Feng,%20Spence,%20&%20Pratt%20(in%20press).pdf
Confidence gap research: https://hbr.org/2014/08/why-women-dont-apply-for-jobs-unless-theyre-100-qualified
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/09/women-workplace-confidence-gap/570772/
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/09/puberty-girls-confidence/563804/
Dunning-Kruger Effect
https://jobs.newscientist.com/article/women-in-stem-why-the-gap/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
