Gender

Rachel Bitecofer Breaks the Rules

Insights, Moving from Expert to Public Expert / By Bob Lalasz

Here’s one way to break the rules in research:

Be a woman in a male-dominated field.
Have a big, easy-to-explain framework that purports to explain and predict what legions of your fellow researchers (and pundits) have struggled to explain and predict for decades.

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The Lack of Female Researcher Thought Leaders

There isn’t one, if a new JAMA study featured last month in STAT is an indication. There’s simply a lack of opportunity for these women to publish their opinion content, as compared with equally qualified male counterparts.

The study, on gender disparities in authorship of invited commentaries in medical journals, is the foundation for a stunning opinion piecein STAT by Emma Thomas, a doctoral student in biostatistics at Harvard’s Chan School of Public Health.…