Decade-long study of scientists’ output and attitudes produces book on why structural tactics to tackle gender and race inequalities fail

Science keeps struggling with inequity because of poorly understood cultural attitudes that persistently defy attempts at structural fixes, a decade-long analysis at a major US university has found.

The assessment – covering more than 500 researchers in the sciences – combined publication and other productivity data with personal surveys and interviews to figure out why years of dedicated efforts across higher education remain frustratingly slow to reduce gender- and race-based disparities in the field.

A key discovery, said one of the book’s co-authors, Mary Blair-Loy, professor of sociology at the University of California at San Diego, is that many scientific leaders truly believe that hard work will win out in the end – even though the reality is clearly at odds with that.

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source: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/science-inequity-rooted-moralised-worship-hard-work?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial-daily&mc_cid=4334838a49&mc_eid=107d2981ef