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Implicit bias

Equality Challenge Unit, UK

Harvard implicit association

Science with women 10%

Science with men 72%

Where is there evidence?

• Appointments (bias prone)

• Starting salaries (~5%)

• Job allocation within organisations

• Pay, promotion, resource allocation

• References (adjectives) (Sex Roles. 2007; 57: 509–514.)

Sex Roles. 2007; 57: 509–514.)

Some facts

Percentage female staff by grade

Left bar for each grade: 2001/02, right bar: 2006/07

Percentage female staff by grade

Left bar for each grade: 2001/02, right bar: 2006/07

People Science and Policy report for RSC, Feb 2009

Overlap with Concordat

• Gender bias awareness to form part of recruitment & Selection training and to be covered in the Research Leaders programme

• Monitor the attendance at and evaluation of recruitment and selection training; which has been revised to incorporate unconscious bias awareness

My career

My skills

Concordat

Equality