Of course, even if collaboration is completely gender - blind, those gender ratios would not be equally split between male - male and male - female pairs, because there are twice as many
male full professors and the rate of publication varies between departments.
Not exact matches
He also, she alleges, has repeatedly refused to support her for promotion to
full professor, even while supporting a
male colleague.
In an example that has been getting wide attention in the media — both journalistic and social — University of Hawaii, Manoa, geobiologist A. Hope Jahren, a
full professor who has spent decades building a successful career in academe, warns fellow female scientists of one pattern they are pretty likely to encounter as they try to make their way in academic science: the telltale strategy of a
male colleague or superior bent on an exploitative sexual relationship.
They began by identifying 50 institutions from across the U.S. and Canada with at least two
male and female
full professors, and two
male and female assistant
professors in their Psychology Departments.
But at least for female psychologists, that collaborator tends to be
male, even when there are female
full professors available, according to a new study.
Female academics face several challenges that their
male colleagues don't, says lead author Joyce Benenson, a psychologist at Emmanuel College in Boston (who co-authored the paper with Richard Wrangham, a
full professor at Harvard University where Berenson worked previously as junior faculty).
While the gender ratio of assistant
professors is almost exactly even, with slightly more females,
full -
professor males still outnumbered females 2 to 1 in their data.