Women aren t failing at science science is failing women

Get the Full StoryFemale research scientists are more productive than their male colleagues, though they are widely perceived as being less so. Women are also rewarded less for their scientific achievements. That s according to my team s study for United Nations University Merit on gender inequality in scientific research in Mexico, published as a working paper in December 2016. The study, part of the project Science, Technology and Innovation Gender Gaps and their Economic Costs in Latin America and the Caribbean , was financed by the Gender and Diversity Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank IDB . The productivity puzzle The study, which looked at This story continues at The Next Web

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