Acknowledging the Significance of Gender

Ann-Marie Lancaster

• 1. Gender as a Predictor
• 2. Understanding Gender Bias
• 3. The Traps
• 3.1 Trap #1: Everyone experiences discrimination
• 3.2 Trap #2: Presence of women equates to absence of gender bias
• 3.3 Trap #3: An “other” is the source of the problem
• 3.4 Trap #4: Women need to change
• 3.5 Trap #5: Experiences in the other sciences are worse
• 4. Conclusion
• End Notes
• References

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