Gender bias in hiring is not blatant, the authors found, but gender - associated differences in productivity, postdoctoral experience, and institutional prestige of degree - granting institutions — which are likely due to bias against women during the training process — largely account for the observed gender imbalance in computer
science faculty hiring networks.
In computer
science faculty hiring decisions, gender is indirectly considered through its correlation with measures like productivity, study finds
Not exact matches
A woman applying for a tenure - track
faculty position in STEM (
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) at a U.S. university is twice as likely to be
hired as an equally qualified man, if both candidates are highly qualified, according to a new study.
Few universities advertise
faculty positions in network
science per se; with some exceptions, network researchers are housed within disciplinary departments and must convince
hiring and tenure committees that their work constitutes a significant contribution to their home field.
I asked many professors for advice, read
Science and Nature career advice columns, attended sessions at conferences aimed at helping to prepare application packages, and asked recently
hired women
faculty for advice.
The next year he was
hired as a founding
faculty member at King Abdullah University of
Science and Technology (KAUST), a graduate research university outside Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, that opened in 2009.
I was invited to talk alongside more senior liberal arts
faculty about life at a liberal arts
science department and how to get
hired at an institution like mine.
Private institutions, including top - tier universities such as Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford, are keeping a tight grip on
faculty hiring, including in the
sciences.
And stimulus money not aimed specifically at the
sciences has nonetheless softened the impact of reduced state funding at many public universities, allowing some to borrow against future retirements to
hire new
faculty members now.
Increasing emphasis on «translation» in academic life
science focuses more research on applications and encourages universities to
hire faculty members with a practical bent — and, often, industrial experience.
Women in computer
science Ph.D. programs operate in cultures that often fail to be inclusive, so when they get to the
faculty hiring process, they have already been disadvantaged in their training.
Despite significant attention to
hiring more female
faculty members in
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, they remain underrepresented at the top levels of academia.
Furthermore, since many
science departments are dominated by men, and since many female scientists are married to other scientists, partner
hiring offers an opportunity to diversify some
science faculties.
Overall, the gender breakdowns of computer
science Ph.D. recipients and new
faculty hires «are very close,» Clauset says, which «suggests there isn't much slack in the system for intervention at the
faculty hiring stage.
Gender plays a complicated role in the
hiring of computer
science tenure - track
faculty members, of which on average only about 15 % are women, according to a study presented today at the peer - reviewed International World Wide Web Conference in Montreal, Canada, and posted on the arXiv preprint server in February.
To address this question, the authors used a hand - curated dataset of 2659 tenure - track computer
science faculty members at 205 Ph.D. - granting departments across North America, which they had previously developed for a 2015 study of
faculty hiring networks.
The gift will allow the Carney Institute to accelerate
hiring of leading
faculty and postdoctoral scholars in fields related to brain
science, supply seed funding for high - impact new research, and also fund essential new equipment and infrastructure in technology - intensive areas of exploration.
Fortunately most
science isn't as politically charged as climate
science, otherwise the starting point for many of Dr. Curry's ideas to succeed would first require the step of establishing diversity through political affirmative action for
faculty hires, not feasible within a reasonable timeframe, if at all.
If law schools want to truly do right by their students they should look at the job
hiring / training system U of T has for its
faculty of
science, specifically engineering or computer
science.