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National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on STEM tenure track by Williams, Wendy M., Ceci, Stephen J.

“…Significance The underrepresentation of women in academic science is typically attributed, both in scientific literature and in the media, to sexist hiring…”
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Understanding current causes of women's underrepresentation in science by Ceci, Stephen J, Williams, Wendy M

“…Explanations for women's underrepresentation in math-intensive fields of science often focus on sex discrimination in grant and manuscript reviewing,…”
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Editorial: Underrepresentation of Women in Science: International and Cross-Disciplinary Evidence and Debate by Williams, Wendy M

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Assessing Gender Bias in Particle Physics and Social Science Recommendations for Academic Jobs by Bernstein, Robert H., Macy, Michael W., Williams, Wendy M., Cameron, Christopher J., Williams-Ceci, Sterling Chance, Ceci, Stephen J.

“…We investigated gender bias in letters of recommendation as a possible cause of the under-representation of women in Experimental Particle Physics (EPP), where…”
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Representational Constraints on the Development of Memory and Metamemory: A Developmental-Representational Theory by Ceci, Stephen J, Fitneva, Stanka A, Williams, Wendy M

“…Traditional accounts of memory development suggest that maturation of prefrontal cortex (PFC) enables efficient metamemory, which enhances memory. An…”
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Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape by Ceci, Stephen J., Ginther, Donna K., Kahn, Shulamit, Williams, Wendy M.

“…Much has been written in the past two decades about women in academic science careers, but this literature is contradictory. Many analyses have revealed a…”
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Does Gender of Administrator Matter? National Study Explores U.S. University Administrators' Attitudes About Retaining Women Professors in STEM by Williams, Wendy M, Mahajan, Agrima, Thoemmes, Felix, Barnett, Susan M, Vermeylen, Francoise, Cash, Brian M, Ceci, Stephen J

“…Omnipresent calls for more women in university administration presume women will prioritize using resources and power to increase female representation,…”
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Exploring Gender Bias in Six Key Domains of Academic Science: An Adversarial Collaboration by Ceci, Stephen J., Kahn, Shulamit, Williams, Wendy M.

“…We synthesized the vast, contradictory scholarly literature on gender bias in academic science from 2000 to 2020. In the most prestigious journals and media…”
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Attracting STEM talent: do STEM students prefer traditional or work/life-interaction labs? by DeFraine, William C, Williams, Wendy M, Ceci, Stephen J

“…The demand for employees trained in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields continues to increase, yet the number of Millennial…”
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Women's Underrepresentation in Science: Sociocultural and Biological Considerations by Ceci, Stephen J, Williams, Wendy M, Barnett, Susan M

“…The underrepresentation of women at the top of math-intensive fields is controversial, with competing claims of biological and sociocultural causation. The…”
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Sex Differences in Math-Intensive Fields by Ceci, Stephen J., Williams, Wendy M.

“…Despite impressive employment gains in many fields of science, women remain underrepresented in fields requiring intensive use of mathematics. Here we discuss…”
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Adversarial collaboration: An undervalued approach in behavioral science by Ceci, Stephen J, Clark, Cory J, Jussim, Lee, Williams, Wendy M

“…Open Science initiatives such as preregistration, publicly available procedures and data, and power analyses have rightly been lauded for increasing the of…”
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Who Decides What Is Acceptable Speech on Campus? Why Restricting Free Speech Is Not the Answer by Ceci, Stephen J., Williams, Wendy M.

“…Recent protests on dozens of campuses have led to the cancellation of controversial talks, and violence has accompanied several of these protests…”
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Women have substantial advantage in STEM faculty hiring, except when competing against more-accomplished men by Ceci, Stephen J, Williams, Wendy M

“…Audits of tenure-track hiring reveal faculty prefer to hire female applicants over males. However, audit data do not control for applicant quality, allowing…”
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When Scientists Choose Motherhood by Williams, Wendy M., Ceci, Stephen J.

“…[...]of such discrimination, the argument goes, girls and women drop out of math-based endeavors or change their focus. [...]we advocate evaluation of an…”
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The Mathematics Of Sex: How Biology and Society Conspire to Limit Talented Women and Girls by Ceci, Stephen J., Williams, Wendy M.

“…Even though women consistently receive better grades in math and science, men excel on math aptitude tests and are greatly overrepresented in the so-called…”
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Are Claims of Fairness Toward Women in the Academy “Manufactured”? The Risk of Basing Arguments on Incomplete Data by Ceci, Stephen J., Williams, Wendy M.

“…Claims of widespread sexism in academic science frequently appear both in the mainstream media and in prestigious science journals. Often these claims are…”
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Prosocial motives underlie scientific censorship by scientists: A perspective and research agenda by Clark, Cory J, Jussim, Lee, Frey, Komi, Stevens, Sean T, Al-Gharbi, Musa, Aquino, Karl, Bailey, J Michael, Barbaro, Nicole, Baumeister, Roy F, Bleske-Rechek, April, Buss, David, Ceci, Stephen, Del Giudice, Marco, Ditto, Peter H, Forgas, Joseph P, Geary, David C, Geher, Glenn, Haider, Sarah, Honeycutt, Nathan, Joshi, Hrishikesh, Krylov, Anna I, Loftus, Elizabeth, Loury, Glenn, Lu, Louise, Macy, Michael, Martin, Chris C, McWhorter, John, Miller, Geoffrey, Paresky, Pamela, Pinker, Steven, Reilly, Wilfred, Salmon, Catherine, Stewart-Williams, Steve, Tetlock, Philip E, Williams, Wendy M, Wilson, Anne E, Winegard, Bo M, Yancey, George, von Hippel, William

“…Science is among humanity's greatest achievements, yet scientific censorship is rarely studied empirically. We explore the social, psychological, and…”
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How to Develop Student Creativity by Sternberg, Robert J, Williams, Wendy M

“…Robert J. Sternberg and Wendy M. Williams share 25 easy-to-implement strategies for developing creativity in yourself, your students, and your colleagues…”
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Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors by Clark, Cory J, Fjeldmark, Matias, Lu, Louise, Baumeister, Roy F, Ceci, Stephen, Frey, Komi, Miller, Geoffrey, Reilly, Wilfred, Tice, Dianne, von Hippel, William, Williams, Wendy M, Winegard, Bo M, Tetlock, Philip E

“…We identify points of conflict and consensus regarding (a) controversial empirical claims and (b) normative preferences for how controversial scholarship-and…”
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