Talk:Sexism in academia

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Original research
The article seems to have been written by someone with an extremely poor understanding of the subject, in a manner which can only be described as an original synthesis of cherry picked statistics and quotes. While a lot of articles start this way, it is in rather dire need of cleaning up. I have started trying to make some of the language neutral and broadening the focus away from the Lawrence Summers issue, but a great deal more work is needed. --TeaDrinker (talk) 17:39, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Clean up
Hey guys! I wanted to let you know that I am planning on making some edits to this article in the hopes that it will increase from stub class. Thanks! ChiefofEngineering (talk) 23:43, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi CoE, can you maybe address this point: from WP's own article on sexism (my highlighting) - "Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex. This is at odds with the first line of the current article. 5.81.164.16 (talk) 10:13, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
 * I referenced the article you highlighted and thought that this statement might clarify the issue - "Sexism in academia refers to the discrimination and subordination of a particular sex in academic institutions, particularly universities, due to the ideologies, practices and reinforcements that privilege one sex over another. Sexism in academia is not limited to but primarily affects women and girls." Does that help? ChiefofEngineering (talk) 14:19, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi CoE, yes, I think that takes care of it admirably. I would have had a go myself but it's not an area of expertise for me. Thank you. 5.81.164.16 (talk) 14:46, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
 * No problem! I'm happy to help. ChiefofEngineering (talk) 18:33, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Added Information
Hello! After reading the article, in order to neutralize some of the statements regarding a lack of sexism in scientific fields of study, I included statistics and a source that emphasizes the degree gap between men and women when it comes to STEM fields. I thought this illustrated both sides of the spectrum. Thanks! ChiefofEngineering (talk) 21:09, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

I also clarified the following statement so it was more cohesive with the portion I added. Thanks! ChiefofEngineering (talk) 13:54, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

Suggested Changes for Improvement
Hello, As I was reading the article, I realized that one of the references is not reliable. It comes from an amateur blog, and thus, does not follow Wiki's guidelines for citing proper resources. Second, the article does not really cover "sexism in academia." It lacks a clear definition of sexism in academia and MANY viewpoints are underrepresented. The article needs to be thoroughly covered. Lastly, Wiki articles are supposed to be NEUTRAL. However, it seems like whoever wrote this article was being biased, suggesting that there is no sexism in academia. It also had a bunch of long direct quotations--which is not part of Wiki's pillars. Kcampos06 (talk) 00:18, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

Some sources to consider
I'm thinking about adding a couple of sections to this page and cleaning up the introduction. Here are a few of the sources I'm working with:


 * Armato, Michael. "Wolves In Sheep's Clothing: Men's Enlightened Sexism & Hegemonic Masculinity In Academia." Women's Studies 42.5 (2013): 578-598. Academic Search Complete. Web. 29 Sept. 2016.


 * Patton, Tracey Owens. "Reflections Of A Black Woman Professor: Racism And Sexism In Academia." Howard Journal Of Communications 15.3 (2004): 185-200. Academic Search Complete. Web.


 * Savigny, Heather. "Women, Know Your Limits: Cultural Sexism In Academia." Gender & Education 26.7 (2014): 794-809. Academic Search Complete. Web.


 * Whitley, Leila, and Tiffany Page. "Sexism At The Centre: Locating The Problem Of Sexual Harassment." New Formations 86 (2015): 34-53. Academic Search Complete. Web.


 * Kauffman, Donna R., and Frances J. Perry. "Institutionalized Sexism In Universities: The Case Of Geographically Bound Academic Women." NWSA Journal 1.4 (1989): 644. Academic Search Complete. Web.


 * Ghiasi, Gita, Vincent Larivière, and Cassidy R. Sugimoto. "On The Compliance Of Women Engineers With A Gendered Scientific System." Plos ONE 10.12 (2015): 1-19. Academic Search Complete. Web.


 * Emmons Allison, Julianne. "Composing a life in 21st Century Academe." NWSA Journal, 19 (3): 23, September 2007. Contemporary Women's Issues. Web.

Somehuman (talk) 18:13, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Pezzoni, Michele, et al. "Gender And The Publication Output Of Graduate Students: A Case Study." Plos ONE 11.1 (2016): 1-12. Academic Search Complete. Web.

Introduction edits and Publishing section
I was thinking of adding this to the introduction:

Although women make up 57% of undergraduate students, women make up 42% of the full-time positions in academia. In fall of 2009, half of all faculty members occupied part-time positions, and men were disproportionately underrepresented those positions. Although women are earning the majority of undergraduate degrees, only 28% of all full professors are women. Since the mid 1970s, women in academia have been paid only 80% of the average salary for a man, in part due to their underrepresentation among fulltime and tenured faculty. In 2011, at all types of academic institutions, Female full professors had a salary disadvantage of 12%, and female associate and assistant professors had a disadvantage of 7%.

And adding a section about gender bias in publishing:

In many academic disciplines, women publish less research than men. This trend is especially pronounced in engineering fields. A study published in 2015 by Gita Ghiasi, Vincent Lariviere, and Cassidy Sugimoto demonstrates that women represent 20% of all the scientific production in the field of engineering. The study examined 679,338 engineering articles published between 2008 and 2013, and it analyzed the collaborative networks among 974,837 authors. Ghiasi et al. created networking diagrams, depicting the frequency of collaboration among authors, and the success of each collaboration was measured by number of citations. These networks illustrate that mixed-gender collaborative teams have a higher average rate of productivity and citations, yet 50% of male engineers have collaborated only with other men and 38% of female engineers have collaborated only with men. The researchers use Impact factors—the average annual number of citation that a journal receives—to measure the prestige of academic journals. Their study shows that when women publish their research in journals with high impact factors, yet they receive fewer citations from the engineering community. The authors explain their findings as a possible consequence of the “Matilda Effect”, a phenomenon that systematically undervalues the scientific contributions of women. In economics, Women receive less credit for work coauthored with men. Female economists publish work as frequently as their male cohorts, yet their tenure prospects are less than half that of men. Women receive comparable credit to men when they solo author their work or coauthor with other female economist. Men receive the same amount of credit from solo authoring and coauthoring their work, shown by a 8-9% increase in their tenure prospects; however, when women coauthor with men, there is zero increase in their tenure prospects. Somehuman (talk) 17:47, 13 October 2016 (UTC)Somehuman

Plans for revision
Hi! I wanted to tell you all about a few of the major changes I plan on making to this article. First, I plan on restructuring the article so that it fully addresses the points present in its introductory statement. This means I will be creating individual sections for tenure, positions and awards. I plan on encompassing some of the present research into these sections as well as providing information and sources of my own finding. Secondly, I want to make clear the fact that I am not planning on fully removing the present sections. I am simply planning on organizing them around the article's three main points. For instance, I plan on incorporating the present pregnancy in academia information into the tenure section. Lastly, throughout this entire process I plan on continuing to fix spelling and grammatical mistakes that are presently in the article as well as clarifying the time and neutrality of certain statements so that they adhere to Wikipedia's guidelines. Thanks! ChiefofEngineering (talk) 14:31, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

Organization
I restructured the article so that it referenced every point hit in the introductory statement. I am sad to say that I will only be able to add the tenure section because my work in Wikipedia is almost complete. Nonetheless, I have completely finished the tenure section. I deleted the pregnancy in academia section, but I added all the relevant information from that section into the tenure section because the two topics made more sense when discussed together. Although I will not be able to add to the positions and awards sections, I have structured the article to include them. I plan on leaving some sources for the position section but do not have any to offer for the awards section. If you have any suggestions to my edits, please feel free to reach out to me. Thanks! ChiefofEngineering (talk) 22:28, 21 October 2018 (UTC)

Positions:

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/447631 https://ac.els-cdn.com/S0362331914000445/1-s2.0-S0362331914000445-main.pdf?_tid=2a2297ed-0312-4991-ae7a-eb7718a84585&acdnat=1538488148_41d3b2ad867b1cb7222c27e4b6763f43 https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BF00289809.pdf https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/pdf/coe_csc.pdf

P.S. Here is a link to my Sandbox for those of you who would like to reference my sources: sandbox Thanks! ChiefofEngineering (talk) 13:40, 23 October 2018 (UTC)