Do men actually ask more questions at science conferences than women?
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Rebecca Trager2019-06-27T16:12:00
Even when women make up 70% of the audience, they still only ask about 40% of the questions, analysis reveals
Women ask fewer questions than men at scientific conferences, even when the majority of the audience is women. That’s according to new findings from Stanford University based on data collected at the annual conferences of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) and smaller Biology of Genomes meetings in the US between 2014 and 2017.