Study challenges gender bias in letters of recommendation

Image:  Are biased letters of recommendation one reason that women remain seriously underrepresented in experimental particle physics, at just about 15 percent of the field’s faculty? A new study suggests not. The new paper, published in open-access format, includes some other interesting findings that challenge the existing literature on gendered language in letters of recommendation. “When we looked at female-authored versus male-authored letters written about the exact same...