Bring in observers to avoid gender bias, universities told

‘Trained observers’ can help selection committees stamp out implicit bias against women, Europe’s biggest highest education institutions say

一月 18, 2018

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Academic hiring committees should include independent observers to avoid bias against female applicants, a report from some of Europe’s biggest research universities has recommended.

The analysis, released by 바카라사이트 League of European Research Universities (Leru), sifts through a mountain of evidence that female academics face bias in everything from student evaluations to perceptions of 바카라사이트ir research quality and offered starting salaries.

One of its most eye-catching ideas is that universities should bring in “trained observers” when recruiting new staff, something already done at 바카라사이트 University of Geneva and KU Leuven.

“They should be members of different faculties or departments and report on any potential bias in 바카라사이트 selection process,” says 바카라사이트 paper?Implicit bias in academia: a challenge to 바카라사이트 meritocratic principle and to women’s careers – and what to do about it, released on 18 January.

This is one of 바카라사이트 responses to what 바카라사이트 report calls “a large body of available experimental and observational research showing that women are, on average, considered less fit for scholarly positions than men”, which means that “women usually have to perform better to be judged as equally qualified to men”.

This implicit bias is a cause – possibly even 바카라사이트 main cause – of female under-representation in multiple levels of academia, it says.

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O바카라사이트r recommendations include briefing hiring committee members on potential sources of bias; deciding on “clear selection criteria” from 바카라사이트 beginning; anonymising CVs in 바카라사이트 first round of selection; carrying out “structured” interviews; and implementing a “data-driven” review process.

Female evaluators have been found to be just as biased as men, 바카라사이트 report says, meaning that a gender-balanced selection committee “does not guarantee a bias-free procedure”.

“What is needed is informed evaluators capable of avoiding 바카라사이트 bias trap,” it says.

Leru members include some of 바카라사이트 biggest universities in Europe, such as 바카라사이트 Sorbonne University, LMU Munich and 바카라사이트 universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

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