Thread by @ImHardcory

1. A sneak peak at yet unpublished meta-analyses on whether there is gender bias in academic science in six domains: letters of recommendation, tenure-track hiring, journal acceptances, grant funding, salary, and teaching ratings:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

2. In teaching evaluations, female instructors are rated lower than male instructors by both male and female students. So some evidence of gender bias there (although it would be helpful to know whether this finding holds up when gender is experimentally manipulated).

3. The 18% gender salary gap shrinks to 4% controlling for type of institution, discipline, and years of experience. This 4% does not control for the fact that men publish more, so the apples to apples gap might be smaller than that.

4. In letters of recommendation, tenure-track hiring, grant funding, and publishing, there was no evidence of systematic gender bias.

5. We should generally beware of anecdotes, but these meta-analyses were sent to *seven* reviewers and ultimately rejected. In my experience, 2-3 reviewers is typical, 4 is above average, 5 is very rare, and 7 is unheard of (until now).

6. Overall, very little support for widespread claims that academia is biased against women.