EPIC FAIL!

lokilover9:

writing-while-female:

Female Scientists Told To Add A Male Author To Their Study

Evolutionary geneticists Fiona Ingleby and Megan Head
collaborated on a study of gender bias in academia. They found that
women with a PhD in biology published fewer articles than their male
peers, which the authors argued showed gender bias, reports Times Higher Education.

When the women submitted the study to peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE, a reviewer came back with some pretty shocking suggestions.

Ingleby quickly posted the reviewer’s remarks to Twitter:

The women’s reviewer also suggested the publishing gap could exist
because middle-aged female scientists preferred spending time with their
children to working in a lab.

“Perhaps it is not so surprising
that on average male doctoral students co-author one more paper than
female doctoral students, just as, on average, male doctoral students
can probably run a mile race a bit faster than female doctoral
students,” the reviewer added, according to Times Higher Education.

And show me where it’s written to suggest male authors do the same with female authors for the same reasons? Ya ain’t gonna find it.