公共管理相关外刊内容阅读 |对女性的偏向是否也是一种性别偏见?

发布于 2021-09-25 00:26

性别偏见既包括对于女性特点固有成见导致的歧视做法,也包括在成见的框架下,故意偏向女性的做法。

Almost a month after University of California Berkeley economists presented evidence of gender discrimination at several leading scientific institutions, including the National Academy of Sciences, the implicated groups have yet to publicly apologize for and repudiate the bias, or to dispute the evidence. Their silence, and that of the broader scientific community, should be deafening. The fact that it isn't speaks volumes about the tolerance of today's gender discrimination - favoring females.

近一个月前,加州大学伯克利分校的经济学家提交了在美国国家科学院等几家领先科研机构存在性别歧视的证据,但牵涉其中的团体尚未为这种偏见公开道歉,也未否认这种偏见,或对证据提出质疑。他们和更广泛的科学界都保持沉默,但其实他们的发声应该是振聋发聩的。事实上,他们没有为当今社会容忍(偏向女性的)性别歧视发声。

The National Bureau of Economic Research working paper compares researchers of similar academic credentials, including publications and citations in top journals, and finds that women are up to twice as likely to receive honors and awards by the Econometric Society, a leading association in the economics field. They also enjoy considerably better odds than men at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. As the study authors acknowledge, this bias likely extends to other scientific institutions and C-suites of many American companies.

美国国家经济研究局工作报告比较了学术资质相近(包括在顶级期刊上发表文章和被引用的次数相近)的研究人员,发现女性获得经济领域顶级协会“计量经济学会”的荣誉和奖励的可能性是男性的两倍。在美国艺术与科学学院和国家科学院,女性的赢面也比男性大得多。该研究的作者认为,这种偏向可能会延伸到其他科研机构和许多美国公司的高管层。

The study shows the playing field was tilted against women from 1933-1980, but then this pattern reversed and selection increasingly has favored women over men for 40 years. The end of such discrimination against women in these professions is worthy of celebration.

研究表明,从1933年到1980年期间,两性竞争环境一直是不利于女性的,但随后这种情况发生了逆转,40年来,选择越来越倾向于女性。在这些职业中对女性歧视的结束值得庆祝。

But as we cheer the end of bias against women, shouldn't we as loudly repudiate the bias today against men? Is there any doubt that if the research showed that bias against women continued today we would hear widespread recriminations within the scientific community and on social media? Immediate redress would be demanded.

但是,当我们庆祝对女性的偏见结束时,我们是否也应该同样大声地批判今天对男性的偏见?如果研究表明现在对女性的偏见仍然存在,我们会在科学界和社交媒体上听到广泛的指责,这是毫无疑问的吧?人们会要求立即对这种歧视进行纠正。

Statistics show women today are better situated than men to succeed in college and careers. Women have represented the majority of the college-educated adults in this country for decades, which recently has been reflected in their outnumbering of college educated men in the workforce. We aren't trailing men, but the other way around.

统计数据显示,如今女性在大学和职场上比男性更容易取得成功。几十年来,在美国受过大学教育的成年人中,女性一直占多数,这一点可以由最近劳动力中女性受教育人数超过男性反映出来。我们没有落后于男性,事实正相反。


本文节选自:The Hill(国会山报)

发布时间:2021.07.18

作者:Alison Sexton Ward

原文标题:Why do we tolerate gender bias favoring women?


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