Unconscious bias in higher education: A talk for International Womenβs Day
…en worse – there are reported to be only 17 black female professors in the UK. There are clearly a whole range of reasons for these statistics and they include the choices made by women themselves. But that’s not enough to explain the differences that exist. An increasing body of research demonstrates some of the barriers women encounter in academia. To give one example, a study by Corinne Moss-Racusin involved recruitment to a science lab. Half t…