WIRN Women in Research Network Glasgow
Prof Jane Norman
University of Edinburgh
Vice Principal for People & Culture
A blogpost on this meeting by Paula Sweeten can be read at: http://www.cceuog.co.uk/#!Unconscious-Bias-?-Are-We-All-Contributing-to-Gender-Inequality/cmbz/56a8dad80cf2296307176685
Interesting links mentioned in the talk:
PNAS paper on PIs gender bias towards ...: http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474.abstract
Can imagery influence peoples ability to give talks & is that gender specific? http://gap.hks.harvard.edu/successful-female-leaders-empower-womens-behavior-leadership-tasks
Are you implicitly biased? Test yourself at:
http://implicit.harvard.edu & https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/selectatest.html
Diversity makes for better teams:
KPMG report on gender equality:
https://www.kpmg.com/UK/en/IssuesAndInsights/ArticlesPublications/Documents/PDF/About/Cracking%20the%20code.pdf
On language and gender bias by students:
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/how-reviews-on-rate-my-professors-describe-men-and-women-differently/93687
A graph displaying the current frequency at which students use a descriptor/word with any word that you choose but starting with: funny: LINK
Wiki on "Lean in"
by Sheryl Sandberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_In
Active bystander policy at the MIT:
http://web.mit.edu/bystanders/
More about the research side of Jane: http://www.crh.ed.ac.uk/professor-jane-norman/
26.1.16
Invited talk by Prof Jane Norman
University of Edinburgh
Vice Principal for People & Culture
A blogpost on this meeting by Paula Sweeten can be read at: http://www.cceuog.co.uk/#!Unconscious-Bias-?-Are-We-All-Contributing-to-Gender-Inequality/cmbz/56a8dad80cf2296307176685
Interesting links mentioned in the talk:
PNAS paper on PIs gender bias towards ...: http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474.abstract
Can imagery influence peoples ability to give talks & is that gender specific? http://gap.hks.harvard.edu/successful-female-leaders-empower-womens-behavior-leadership-tasks
Are you implicitly biased? Test yourself at:
http://implicit.harvard.edu & https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/selectatest.html
Diversity makes for better teams:
Woolley, A. W., Chabris, C. F., Pentland, A., Hashmi, N., & Malone, T. W. Evidence for a collective intelligence factor in the performance of human groups, Science, 29 October 2010, 330 (6004), 686-688; Published online 30 September 2010 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1193147]
Woolley, A., & Malone, T. Defend your research: What makes a team smarter? More women, Harvard Business Review, June 2011, 89 (6): 32-33
https://www.kpmg.com/UK/en/IssuesAndInsights/ArticlesPublications/Documents/PDF/About/Cracking%20the%20code.pdf
On language and gender bias by students:
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/how-reviews-on-rate-my-professors-describe-men-and-women-differently/93687
A graph displaying the current frequency at which students use a descriptor/word with any word that you choose but starting with: funny: LINK
Wiki on "Lean in"
by Sheryl Sandberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_In
Active bystander policy at the MIT:
http://web.mit.edu/bystanders/
More about the research side of Jane: http://www.crh.ed.ac.uk/professor-jane-norman/