Male Professors vs Female Professors

[uchibenkeiParticipant 7965]

Not really news for us but it’s nice to see an article like this once in a while.

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Female Professors Hardly Brilliant, Certainly Not Genius

The words “brilliant” and “genius” were used two to three times more to describe male instructors than female instructors.

Male professors are considered significantly more “brilliant” and “genius” – up to three times more, in fact – than female professors, according to thousands of college students.

That’s the latest finding in the higher education gender wars, which researchers published earlier this month in Plos One.

The researchers tallied the use of “brilliant” and “genius” in more than 14 million reviews of faculty members on RateMyProfessor.com, a website on which students can write anonymous evaluations of their instructors.

Specifically, they found that students used “brilliant” to describe male professors nearly twice as much as they used it to describe female professors, and used “genius” to describe male professors more than three times as much.

Past research has shown that different fields of study place a different emphasis on raw intellectual talent. Many in academia believe that philosophy, for example, requires innate talent for success, rather than, say, molecular biology, which is believed to require more empathy and hard work for success. And because women have been stereotyped as not possessing raw talent, they are often underrepresented in such fields like philosophy but overrepresented in fields like molecular biology.

The new study found evidence to back up this theory: Researchers identified a tight link between the frequency of comments about “brilliance” and “genius” within a field and the emphasis that field puts on raw intelligence. Indeed, the more frequently those terms were used on RateMyProfessors.com to evaluate instructors in a field, the more strongly academics in that field endorsed the importance of intellectual talent for success.

Moreover, they found that fields in which “brilliance” and “genius” were used more frequently, such as philosophy, physics and math, also had fewer female and African-American Ph.D.s.

Across the fields represented on RateMyProfessors.com, superlatives about intelligence – though notably not superlatives about skill – were used two to three times more often about male than about female instructors. That difference, the researchers wrote, “illustrates our culture’s negative attitudes toward women’s intellects.”

One hypothesis for the differences, the researchers noted, could be that fields that have more mentions of “brilliant” and “genius” in their online evaluations do so simply because more undergraduate men take courses in them, and men may be more likely than women to value such traits. To put it another way: If white men overwhelming relate to white men, and women to women, more white male student reviewers could translate to white male professors getting the superlatives more often.

However, RateMyProfessors.com does not record the gender or race of the students leaving feedback, so there was no way to know, for example, whether males were more likely to use “brilliant” and “genius.”

Researchers underscored that the same theory could not be used to explain why the frequency of “brilliant” and “genius” also predicts the representation of African-Americans at the Ph.D. level.

Going forward, the researchers suggested people keep in mind that focusing on inherent intellectual abilities, as opposed to hard work and skill, may discourage participation by women and African-Americans, as well as other groups of people stereotypically portrayed as lacking those abilities.

“In light of these data,” they wrote in the study, “it seems likely that turning the spotlight away from sheer brilliance – and toward the importance of sustained effort in achieving professional success – may bring about improvements in the diversity of many fields.”

To be sure, critics have long underscored the various flaws of the teaching evaluation website, most notably the propensity for students to give the highest ranking to professors who are easy graders, or even, as one study found, good-looking.

But the study’s finding is the latest in a series that highlights various gender disparities in higher education and the workplace.

One recent paper showed that women are considered better computer coders than men, but only when they hide their gender. Another showed that male students overwhelmingly chose other males students when asked to nominate the best students in entry-level biology classes. And yet another, showed that women earn more doctoral, master’s, bachelor’s and associate’s degrees than men, but when it comes to holding positions of authority in academia their numbers fall by the wayside.

I bathe in the tears of single moms.

[RoyDalParticipant]

I was a STEM major back in the halcyon days of my youth. I avoided feminist doctrine courses like the plague. Thus, the female profs I had were generally competent, stuck to the course material, and kept politics out of our faces.

However, the smartest profs I had were all men. One is described as “a modern day Gauss” by his colleagues.

Society asks MGTOWs: Why are you not making more tax-slaves?

[Faust For ScienceParticipant 22521]

Well, to be fair, the core problem is not gender, but tenure. Tenure has destroyed the college and university systems. Tenure has created job protection for professors. Making it difficult for a professor to lose their job, while allowing the professors to negotiate their salaries, which inflate every year.

Given that professors did not have to worry about losing their jobs, they have no incentive produce actual work, and in some case, they do not even have to worry about behaving. As such, the professors do the bare minimum to keep their jobs, they do not challenge their students, and they also drive away those students that are truly gifts with creativity and genius. Because such students, whom think outside of the box, require actual work, effort, and creativity to teach.

As such, colleges and universities have fallen into that most horrible of intellectual pitfalls, mediocrity.

[VarunParticipant 2981]

Faust For Science wrote:

Well, to be fair, the core problem is not gender, but tenure. Tenure has destroyed the college and university systems. Tenure has created job protection for professors. Making it difficult for a professor to lose their job, while allowing the professors to negotiate their salaries, which inflate every year.

Given that professors did not have to worry about losing their jobs, they have no incentive produce actual work, and in some case, they do not even have to worry about behaving. As such, the professors do the bare minimum to keep their jobs, they do not challenge their students, and they also drive away those students that are truly gifts with creativity and genius. Because such students, whom think outside of the box, require actual work, effort, and creativity to teach.

As such, colleges and universities have fallen into that most horrible of intellectual pitfalls, mediocrity.

College professors over here only become one for the attractive pay package, nothing else. Also, he/she gets married off faster as he is a good suitor in the eyes of society who has ‘both a respectable and well-paying profession’.

B~~~~! If you don’t do it right, even the president wil get overthrown some day.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

[SkeptiskParticipant 3679]

“illustrates our culture’s negative attitudes toward women’s intellects.”

No, you moron, it’s just an objective view towards the lack of intelligence found i females. Males simply have more intelligent fellows than women, and more idiots as well. The latter are called “blue pill men”, btw.

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