Faculty Hiring Shows Male Disadvantage

Updated: 2025.08.26 1M ago 4 sources
A review of experimental 'audit' studies where faculty evaluate identical male and female applicants reports that biases more often run against men than against women. The author contrasts these randomized designs with observational gap studies that can’t establish causality. — If true, it undercuts prevailing sexism narratives in academia and calls for rethinking DEI hiring policies and compliance regimes.

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Reviewing Nature's Reviews of Our Proposal to Replicate The Famous Moss-Racusin et al Study on Sex Bias in Science Hiring
Lee Jussim 2025.08.26 85% relevant
The author states their replication of science‑faculty evaluations found biases against men, directly aligning with the idea that experimental audit designs often detect male‑disadvantaging effects in academic hiring.
More Evidence of Biases Against Men than Against Women in Faculty Hiring
Lee Jussim 2025.07.30 100% relevant
Unsafe Science post (Lee Jussim, July 30, 2025) compiling faculty-audit experiments and citing his team’s three studies finding bias against hiring men.
Scientific Rigor versus Rigor Posturing
Lee Jussim 2025.07.01 90% relevant
Jussim reports close replications of Moss-Racusin et al. (2012) reversing the original finding to show bias against men in faculty evaluations of a lab manager applicant, directly aligning with evidence that audit-style studies can reveal male disadvantage in academic hiring judgments.
REVERSAL: Science Faculty's "Subtle" Gender Biases Against Men
Lee Jussim 2025.06.27 90% relevant
Jussim’s replications, using near-identical methods to the original, find bias against men in science-faculty evaluations, aligning with evidence from audit experiments that male applicants can be disadvantaged in academic hiring.
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