Study found that, the more women there were in a field, the lower the overall grant-application success rate and evaluation of researcher quality. Women in male-dominated fields, such as physics, scored better on researcher-evaluation metrics than did those in female-dominated disciplines.

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Men in colleges and universities currently outpace women in earning physics, engineering, and computer science (PECS) degrees by an approximate ratio of 4 to 1. Most selective universities by math SAT scores have nearly closed the PECS gender gap, while less selective universities have seen it widen

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Women With Both High Math 🧮 And Verbal Ability 📚 Appear Less Likely To Choose Science Careers 🔬 As Their Broader Skill Set Lends Them More Career Choices 💼

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Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s, lowering their chances of getting university jobs, tenure and reducing their publication output, finds a large analysis of academics in Denmark.

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During the early 20th century, there was a decline in share of female physicians in the US – This decline was due to the closure of schools that accepted female applicants, more stringent admissions requirements for female than male applicants, and the refusal of some schools to admit women at all.

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Deep-rooted cultural beliefs about hierarchy and gender roles can prevent highly educated women from participating fully in the workforce. In societies that heavily favor strict social hierarchies, earning an advanced education does not help women close the economic gender gap.

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Women Are More Likely to Be Interested in Jobs Where Most Employees Are Women. Researchers Suggest Workplace Gender Representation May Influence Career Interest and Help Explain Why Some Professions Remain Male or Female Dominated.

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📈 Workplace Gender Mix Matters to Women: Studies show women are more interested in hypothetical jobs and feel a stronger sense of belonging when they perceive a workplace as having more women employees. This effect can even outweigh messages emphasizing "brilliance" needed for a role.

📊 Representation Influences Future Representation: Findings from four studies involving 1,680 U.S. participants suggest that existing gender representation in a field can encourage future representation. Women's sense of belonging was strongly linked to the expected proportion of women in an occupation.

💡 Beyond Brilliance: For women, the gender composition of a workplace sometimes mattered more than job ads stressing exceptional brilliance. In female-dominated roles, women showed more interest and belonging, even when brilliance was emphasized, compared to male-dominated roles emphasizing dedication.

⚖️ Majority Matters: Women's interest and sense of belonging grew stronger as the gender imbalance became larger in favor of women. Women reported more interest and belonging when women formed a 75% or 90% majority compared to male majorities.

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New Study Finds Gendered Messaging Can Backfire: Messages that reference gender when highlighting women's success in an activity actually made kids and adults of both genders see girls and women as less capable, and also made everyone less interested in trying the activity themselves.

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