(CAMPUS REFORM) -- The authors of a new study suggest that “masculine traits” give male professors an advantage over their female colleagues when it comes to letters of recommendation.
The study, “Raising Doubt in Letters of Recommendation for Academia: Gender Differences and Their Impact,” was published in the Journal of Business and Psychology by a team of researchers led by University of Houston Professor Juan Madera.
To gain a deeper understanding of gender bias in academia, Madera and his colleagues obtained 624 authentic letters of recommendation written for 174 professors and reviewed them for the presence of “doubt raisers.”
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