Race and gender inequity in awards and recognition

Article Medicine, General & Internal

Women and non-white people among Lasker Award recipients from 1946 to 2022: cross sectional study

Jeremy W. Jacobs et al.

Summary: This study aimed to determine whether gender and racial inequities exist among Lasker Award recipients. The findings showed that among 397 Lasker Award recipients from 1946 to 2022, 92.2% were men and 95.7% were white. Despite the increasing number of women and non-white individuals in academic medicine and biomedical research, the proportion of women among Lasker Award recipients has not changed over the past 70 years.

BMJ-BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL (2023)

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Article Psychology, Educational

Women-Particularly Underrepresented Minority Women-and Early-Career Academics Feel Like Impostors in Fields That Value Brilliance

Melis Muradoglu et al.

Summary: This research found that feeling like an impostor is common in the academic world, especially among women and early career scholars. Furthermore, it highlights the connection between impostor feelings and the emphasis on raw intellectual talent in a field, showing that the more a field values brilliance, the more likely women and early-career academics are to feel like impostors.

JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY (2022)

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Article Information Science & Library Science

The gender gap in highly prestigious international research awards, 2001-2020

Lokman Meho

Summary: From 2001 to 2020, there were significant gender disparities in the world's 141 most prestigious international research awards, with women receiving a lower share of awards, particularly in biological, computer, and mathematical sciences. Further investigation is needed to understand the factors contributing to this gender gap.

QUANTITATIVE SCIENCE STUDIES (2021)

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Article Education & Educational Research

Competing inequalities: gender versus race in higher education institutions in the UK

Kalwant Bhopal et al.

Summary: This article discusses the impacts and institutional experiences of the Athena SWAN and Race Equality Charter Marks in UK universities, pointing out a risk of gender and race inequalities becoming conflated in current equalities work due to a privileging of gender over race in higher education policymaking.

EDUCATIONAL REVIEW (2021)

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Article Education & Educational Research