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Novara

(6,108 posts)
Thu Apr 30, 2015, 03:03 PM Apr 2015

PEER REVIEWER SAYS FEMALE RESEARCHERS SHOULD GET A MALE CO-AUTHOR TO “CHECK” STUDY

PEER REVIEWER SAYS FEMALE RESEARCHERS SHOULD GET A MALE CO-AUTHOR TO “CHECK” STUDY

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To recap: A reviewer who thinks it’s not surprising that the study found male students authored more papers than female students on the basis that men, on average, can run faster thinks that it’s the paper’s authors would might be unduly influenced by “ideologically biased assumptions.” The reviewer also suggested that perhaps the male students tended to get published in better journals than their female counterparts “simply because men, perhaps, on average work more hours per week than women, due to marginally better health or stamina.”

I mean, when you’re reaching to supposed physical differences between men and women to explain away gender disparities in academia, you might want to question how your ideological bias against seeing sexism at all costs might be blinding you to the empirical evidence.

Read more: http://feministing.com/2015/04/30/peer-reviewer-says-female-researchers-should-get-a-male-co-author-to-check-study/
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PEER REVIEWER SAYS FEMALE RESEARCHERS SHOULD GET A MALE CO-AUTHOR TO “CHECK” STUDY (Original Post) Novara Apr 2015 OP
Well, women are so emotional after all. Gormy Cuss Apr 2015 #1

Gormy Cuss

(30,884 posts)
1. Well, women are so emotional after all.
Thu Apr 30, 2015, 10:47 PM
Apr 2015


And the PLOS reviewer either ignored or was unaware that several male colleagues had reviewed the paper before submission.
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