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Episode #6: A Successful Intervention Boosts the Gender Diversity of STEM Faculty
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Episode #6: A Successful Intervention Boosts the Gender Diversity of STEM Faculty
FromBioScience Talks
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18 minutes
Released:
Nov 11, 2015
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Podcast episode
Description
Eighty-one percent of US science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) university faculty members are men. The relative dearth of women in the field is a long-recognized problem—but it's one that may be on its way to a solution. Using a three-step intervention derived from self-determination theory, an interdisciplinary team from Montana State University demonstrated a low-cost way to improve gender diversity in STEM-faculty hiring. The results were impressive, with search committees in the intervention group 6.3 times more likely to make an offer to a woman candidate. Dr. Alexander Zale was part of the team, and he joins us on this episode of BioScience Talks.
Read the article describing the intervention.
Read Amy Pohler's Smart Girls blog about the results.
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Read the article describing the intervention.
Read Amy Pohler's Smart Girls blog about the results.
Subscribe on iTunes.
Subscribe on Stitcher.
Released:
Nov 11, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
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