Eine interessante Studie zur Diskriminierung von Frauen im wissenschaftlichen Bereich (abstract/full text) (via):
Explanations for women’s underrepresentation in math-intensive fields of science often focus on sex discrimination in grant and manuscript reviewing, interviewing, and hiring. Claims that women scientists suffer discrimination in these arenas rest on a set of studies undergirding policies and programs aimed at remediation. More recent and robust empiricism, however, fails to support assertions of discrimination in these domains. To better understand women’s underrepresentation in math-intensive fields and its causes, we reprise claims of discrimination and their evidentiary bases. Based on a review of the past 20 y of data, we suggest that some of these claims are no longer valid and, if uncritically accepted as current causes of women’s lack of progress, can delay or prevent understanding of contemporary determinants of women’s underrepresentation. We conclude that differential gendered outcomes in the real world result from differences in resources attributable to choices, whether free or constrained, and that such choices could be influenced and better informed through education if resources were so directed. Thus, the ongoing focus on sex discrimination in reviewing, interviewing, and hiring represents costly, misplaced effort: Society is engaged in the present in solving problems of the past, rather than in addressing meaningful limitations deterring women’s participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers today. Addressing today’s causes of underrepresentation requires focusing on education and policy changes that will make institutions responsive to differing biological realities of the sexes. Finally, we suggest potential avenues of intervention to increase gender fairness that accord with current, as opposed to historical, findings.
Ich vermute mal, dass die alten Studien dennoch unkritisch weiter publiziert werden.
Dass das daran festhalten sogar schädlich für Frauen sein kann spielt dabei eine geringere Rolle als die Aufrechterhaltung der Ideologie.
Alles Evolution 
Interessanter Artikel, Christian. Aus der Conclusion: „That women tend to occupy positions offering fewer resources is not due to women being bypassed in interviewing and hiring or being denied grants and journal publications because of their sex. It is due primarily to factors surrounding family formation and childrearing, gendered expectations, lifestyle choices, and career preferences—some originating before or during adolescence and secondarily to sex differences at the extreme right tail of mathematics performance on tests used as gateways to graduate school admission.“
@Jürgen Bolt
Also im Endeffekt die klassischen Gründe, die auch sonst in der Debatte – wenn auch nicht auf feministischer Seite – genannt werden.