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University of Hawaii: New Metrics Could Reduce Gender Gap in STEM Fields
March 11, 2021
HONOLULU, Hawaii, March 11 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release:

Hiring, promotion and tenure within universities are based on objective metrics of performance, something that is often evaluated using metrics that disproportionately favor men over women, such as citations and invited lectureships.

A growing body of work has identified bias in favor of men across nearly all traditional academic evaluation metrics. Biased metrics can impa . . .

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