Gender bias in academia: A lifetime problem that needs solutions

Anaïs Llorens (1) , Athina Tzovara (1, 2) , Ludovic Bellier (1) , Ilina Bhaya-Grossman (1) , Aurélie Bidet-Caulet (3) , William Chang (1) , Zachariah Cross (4) , Rosa Dominguez-Faus (5) , Adeen Flinker (6) , Yvonne Fonken (1, 7) , Mark Gorenstein (1) , Chris Holdgraf (1) , Colin Hoy (1) , Maria Ivanova (1) , Richard Jimenez (1) , Soyeon Jun (1, 8) , Julia W.Y. Kam (1) , Celeste Kidd (1) , Enitan Marcelle (1) , Deborah Marciano (1) , Stephanie Martin (1) , Nicholas Myers (1, 7) , Karita Ojala (9) , Anat Perry (10) , Pedro Pinheiro-Chagas (11) , Stephanie Riès (12) , Ignacio Saez (5) , Ivan Skelin (13) , Katarina Slama (1) , Brooke Staveland (1) , Danielle Bassett (14) , Elizabeth Buffalo (15) , Adrienne Fairhall (15) , Nancy Kopell (16) , Laura Kray (1) , Jack Lin (13) , Anna Nobre (7) , Dylan Riley (1) , Anne-Kristin Solbakk (17) , Joni Wallis (1) , Xiao-Jing Wang (18) , Shlomit Yuval-Greenberg (19) , Sabine Kastner (20) , Robert Knight (1) , Nina Dronkers (1)

1 UC Berkeley - University of California [Berkeley]
2 University of Bern
3 CRNL - Centre de recherche en neurosciences de Lyon - Lyon Neuroscience Research Center
4 University of South Australia [Adelaide]
5 UC Davis - University of California [Davis]
6 NYU - New York University School of Medicine
7 University of Oxford [Oxford]
8 SNU - Seoul National University [Seoul]
9 UKE - Universitaetsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf = University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf [Hamburg]
10 HUJ - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
11 Stanford University
12 SDSU - San Diego State University
13 UC Irvine - University of California [Irvine]
14 University of Pennsylvania [Philadelphia]
15 University of Washington [Seattle]
16 BU - Boston University [Boston]
17 UiO - University of Oslo
18 NYU - New York University [New York]
19 TAU - Tel Aviv University
20 Princeton University

Despite increased awareness of the lack of gender equity in academia and a growing number of initiatives to address issues of diversity, change is slow, and inequalities remain. A major source of inequity is gender bias, which has a substantial negative impact on the careers, work-life balance, and mental health of underrepresented groups in science. Here, we argue that gender bias is not a single problem but manifests as a collection of distinct issues that impact researchers’ lives. We disentangle these facets and propose concrete solutions that can be adopted by individuals, academic institutions, and society

Domains: Cognitive science; Neuroscience; Humanities and Social Sciences; Gender studies

Anaïs Llorens, Athina Tzovara, Ludovic Bellier, Ilina Bhaya-Grossman, Aurélie Bidet-Caulet, et al.. Gender bias in academia: A lifetime problem that needs solutions. Neuron, 2021, 109 (13), pp.2047-2074. ⟨10.1016/j.neuron.2021.06.002⟩. ⟨hal-03570522⟩