{"id":2479,"date":"2022-08-15T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/?p=2479"},"modified":"2022-08-18T14:44:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T18:44:27","slug":"science-inequity-rooted-in-moralised-worship-of-hard-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/research\/science-inequity-rooted-in-moralised-worship-of-hard-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Science inequity rooted in \u2018moralised\u2019 worship of \u2018hard work\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
Science\u00a0keeps struggling with inequity because of poorly understood cultural attitudes that persistently defy attempts at structural fixes, a decade-long analysis at a major US university has found.<\/p>\n
The assessment \u2013 covering more than 500\u00a0researchers in the sciences \u2013 combined publication and other productivity data with personal surveys and interviews to figure out why years of dedicated efforts across higher education remain frustratingly slow to reduce gender- and race-based disparities in the field.<\/p>\n
A key discovery, said one of the book\u2019s co-authors, Mary Blair-Loy, professor of sociology at the University of California at San Diego, is that many scientific leaders truly believe that hard work will win out in the end \u2013 even though the reality is clearly\u00a0at odds with that.<\/p>\n