Group 1: Marc Duemmler, Megan Ogle, Danielle Stone, Zack Pierce, Ryan Yost

Gender Bias:
Engineering mainly dudes
Education and health mainly girls

Achievement Gap:
South side of Chicago
Balancing studies with work or family
Economic Status

Segregation on Campus:
Historically Black colleges
Clubs for certain races

Changes in Liberal Arts Education:

STEM focus
Arts arent valued as much

Technology and Academic Habits of Mind:

Canvas/ Moodle

Problem Addressed Who is Affected Power/Vulnerable

Gender Bias Gender Bias at HBS Women The professors have

the power when it
comes to grading,
and how the classes
are organized
The students are
vulnerable

Achievement Gap Community college Students at The government has

students have less community college the power to
opportunities distribute funds
The colleges also
have the power to
invest/accept more
transfer students
The community
college students are
vulnerable without the
funding

Segregation on Should there be safe Minorities who feel University/Admin

Campus spaces for minority unsafe on campus have the power
students? whether or not to
 provide classes/safe
spaces.
The students who
want them are
vulnerable

Changes in Liberal The change from The students The teachers have
Arts Education traditional classroom the power to flip the
to flipped-classroom classroom
The students have to
go with it

Technology and The distraction of

Academic Habits of technology in a
Mind classroom

Gender Bias
When did gender bias start?
How did gender bias come about?
How does gender bias represent the values of different groups, institutions, or cultures?
Gender bias in schools/majors? admissions?
Why has gender bias not ended?
What has been done to end gender bias?
Is gender bias an international issue?
What is second generation bias?
Is there gender bias against men as well as women?
How does gender bias affect women and men?
Why should we end gender bias?
Have other places ended gender bias already?
What is gender bias?
What are steps other places have taken to reduce gender bias?
Where does gender bias occur?
How does gender bias in education affect gender bias in other aspects of life?
Who is responsible for fixing this issue?

Article Title Authors Your Examples Importance What you

Claim favorite to your think
 information issue about
college
education

Gender Bias Robnett The group of Overall, The study I think that
in STEM proves that women that 61% of shows that its clear from
Fields: gender bias face the most participants women in this study that
is relevant gender bias in the current STEM fields most women
Variation in
today, and are women at study such as will
Prevalence the reported engineering encounter
because of
and Links to undergraduat gender bias at and physics gender bias in
the bias that
STEM Self- some women e level least once are mostly the STEM
Concept face they pursuing an during the going to field. This is
dont pursue education in last year. encounter an issue
math- some sort of because the
an education
intensive Experiences gender bias. gender bias is
or a career in
STEM fields. with bias discouraging
the math-
were a lot of
intensive
especially females from
STEM fields common for pursuing an
such as women who education in
physics and were in this field.
engineering. enrolled in This could
math- ultimately
intensive damage the
undergraduat field in the
e majors. long run if
only men are
pursuing it.

Robnetts
theory on
Gender Bias
is extremely
useful
because it
sheds insight
on the
problem that
gender bias
still exists,
and is
extremely
prominent at
the
undergraduat
 e level.

Whats in a This article The findings There are This study I think that
Name: discusses a showcase the gender role exhibits that the gender
Exposing study weaknesses expectations: students are bias held by
Gender Bias conducted to of student Commonly in fact biased students
in Student determine ratings and held towards male towards their
Ratings of whether that their masculine, or professors instructors is
Teaching student continued use effectiveness, over female a significant
ratings of will only traits include professors. issue because
teaching are disadvantage professionalis This gender the reputation
biased by women in m and bias hinders of the
creating a academia. objectivity; the success of instructors is
situation in feminine, or women in on the line. It
which some interpersonal academia. is unfair to
students traits include assume that
believed they warmth and women are
had a teacher accessibility. incapable of
of one Gender is instructing
gender, but part of an students as
that teacher ongoing well as men
was really of performance are and to
the opposite basedonprodu judge their
gender. This cingaconfigur ability solely
study ationofbehavi on their
revealed that orsthataresee gender.
students rated nbyothersasn
the instructor ormative MacNells
they believed theory of
to be male gender bias
significantly by students
higher than towards their
the one they instructors is
believed to be extremely
female. useful
because it
sheds insight
on the issue
of the
assumption
that women
are incapable
of instructing
as well as
men
 Gender Bias This article The male The number Women I think that
in the College discusses dominated of women at were being the SAT
Predictions of how the courses UC Berkeley held to a scores
the SAT predictions were graded in the higher required to
made by harsher, freshman standard be admitted
colleges, in therefore class was (higher SAT into any
this case UC their grades predicted to scores) university
Berkeley, were not as be 5% lower when should be
based off good as the than it would applying to equal for
student SAT female have been if the males and
dominated the SAT university females.
scores under-
courses would have than male Females
represent
which were been less applicants shouldnt be
women. It
not graded biased. required to
states that
as harshly. get a higher
this test This meant SAT score
doesnt the colleges just because
accurately expected the college
display a higher predicts
predicted scores and their
college gpa higher achievement
or how predicted based on
women would gpas from female
do in college female dominated
courses applicants, courses.
because of meaning
the bias even It is
towards more students possible
male with high when this
dominated gpas could study was
fields. be denied. conducted
that there
was bias
present, but
I disagree
with David
Leonard that
today, SAT
scores are
biased
against
women,
based off
my
experience
here at
 UNCC
where the
gender ratio
is fairly
equal
(51/49).

An MIT This article is Hopkins "But they Women are I think its
Professors about sex was denied said: 'I know experiencin disappointin
Suspicion of discrimination teaching it all. I've g gender g to see
Bias Leads in the rights to a seen it all. I bias post gender bias
to a New workplace class that used to go schooling go on
Movement and uses a she sit in my through around you,
for real world developed room and many ways, but its also
Academic example at cry. Do you but there is really
Women MIT to show Hopkins have action being encouraging
how the victory lead something taken by to see that
to a country for me to some to there are
gender
wide sign? stop it steps being
inequality gap
revolution taken in the
is being
So far, she right
reduced
has given direction to
around the lectures on help
country. 18 eliminate
campuses, gender bias.
with more
scheduled Although
gender bias
is still a big
problem
today and
still needs a
lot of
attention, I
agree with
Wilsons
claim that
there are
encouraging
signs
towards the
elimination
of gender
bias.

A Case for Statistics A female Women Based on the

The article
Double based off historians authors do examples the
begins by research was author gave, I
Standards discussing the the lists of not write or
stolen and the do not think
severity and top book claim made publish as
importance of sellers and much as the same
that as the
the issue, and things would
authors for content is in males do
follows up her the public have
the history because of happened if
explanation of sphere, credit
gender bias education their fear of the historians
need not be
with multiple genre were given, despite criticism. As had been
examples of significantly the fact that it a result, the men. There is
how women in the favor would not be history field a bias against
she knows in of males in there if this lacks the women in
history historian had
which on different history
education have not dredged it
faced gender average perspective education
out of the
discrimination. only four out that female and a
archives.
Lipscomb of fifty authors prejudice that
closes her Earlier in the they are not
people on provide
article by year, the US as intelligent/
claiming that the lists cant write as
journal Slate
gender bias in were found that of well as men.
education is females 614 popular This causes a
an awful, history titles lack of a
ongoing published in different
problem that the US last
needs to come perspective in
year, almost 76
to an end. the field.
per cent were
written by men.
In the UK, in Lipscombs
January, four theory of
solo women gender bias
authors in historical
appeared in scholarship is
the top 50 extremely
history useful
bestsellers. because it
sheds light on
the difficult
problem of
discrimination
against
female
authors
causing a
lack of variety
of
perspective in
historical
education.
Location:
school/education
Workplace
Major:
STEM
History

Synthesis Statement/Paragraph
While all of these sources highlight the issue of gender bias and the importance of
taking steps to reduce it, each article depicts a different area of gender bias in education
including how gender bias affects students and/or professors in particular aspects of
college education such as specific departments and different fields of study. Lipscombs
article demonstrates the discrimination female authors face in historical scholarship by
discussing a variety of her colleagues experiences as a result of writing historical
articles and books. Robnett proves that gender bias is especially prevalent at the
undergraduate level, specifically to women who study math-intensive STEM fields such
as engineering and physics. MacNell holds that students are biased towards their
professors, rating males higher than females based solely upon knowledge of their
gender.

Article written at UNC Charlotte about gender bias in academia

http://www.portal.advance.vt.edu/Advance_2009_PI_Mtg/PIMtg2009%20Charlotte
%20Gender%20Bias.pdf