Women going for professor thwarted by female interviewers

Including female assessors on a selection committee does not improve a female applicant’s chances of getting a professor or associate professor position, new research suggests. Researchers at the Aalto University School of Business in Finland investigated the effect of gender makeup on committees’ decision making by getting 8000 randomly selected evaluators to assess 100,000 real applications for professorships in Italy and Spain. They found that when committees of assessors included more women, it did not improve outcomes for female applicants.