Ways to Change the Implicit Bias Status Quo
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A study examining student evaluations in France and the United States revealed one of the consequences of gender bias in academia. As reported in the Inside Higher Ed article, Bias Against Female Instructors, French male students ranked male instructors higher, even though students taught by male instructors did worse on final exams than students taught by females. In the United States, a male and female teaching assistant for an online course each taught a group using their given names, and then each taught another group using the other person’s name without the students knowing. Both male and female students ranked the instructors they perceived to be male higher, and female significantly lower.
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