Student Ratings of a Male and Female Professors’ Lecture on Sex Discrimination in the Workforce

Abel, Millicent H.; Meltzer, Andrea L.

doi:10.1007/s11199-007-9245-x

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“…Across both studies, there is evidence that students' beliefs about sexual orientation inform their impressions of a course. Consistent with previous experiments using other target groups, such as women (Abel & Meltzer, 2007; Moore & Trahan, 1997) and African Americans (Ludwig & Meacham, 1997), professors who are members of minority groups are viewed as politically biased and subjective in their presentations, relative to heterosexual White men. The undergraduate students in the present study viewed heterosexuals as the normative professor who is relatively objective and value‐free.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 80%

“…Similarly, another study found that female professors who taught about gender inequality were viewed as more biased and more sexist toward men than were male professors who taught with the same lecture content (Abel & Meltzer, 2007). Ludwig and Meacham (1997) drew on cognitive dissonance theory and designed a study in which race (African American vs. White) was a factor hypothesized to affect students' ratings of a syllabus for a course entitled Racism and Sexism in American Society.…”

Section: Expectancy Violationmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Inventing a Gay Agenda: Students' Perceptions of Lesbian and Gay Professors1

Anderson¹,

Kanner²

2011

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

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Students' perceptions of lesbian and gay professors were examined in 2 studies (Ns = 622 and 545). An ethnically diverse sample of undergraduates read and responded to a syllabus for a proposed Psychology of Human Sexuality course. Syllabuses varied according to the political ideology, carefulness, sexual orientation, and gender of the professor. Students rated professors on dimensions such as political bias, professional competence, and warmth. Lesbian and gay professors were rated as having a political agenda, compared to heterosexual professors with the same syllabus. Student responses differed according to their homonegativity and modern homonegativity scores. The findings from these studies suggest that students may use different criteria to evaluate lesbian, gay, and heterosexual professors' ability to approach courses objectively.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 80%

Section: Expectancy Violationmentioning

confidence: 98%

Inventing a Gay Agenda: Students' Perceptions of Lesbian and Gay Professors1

Anderson¹,

Kanner²

2011

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

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“…Additional studies similarly show that female (versus male) teachers are rated more negatively (14)(15)(16)(17). For example, participants who read a lecture, which was posited as having been written and delivered by a male or female professor, rated the lecture by the male (versus the female) professor significantly more positively (18). Thus, gatekeepers affect the careers of men and women in academia at a range of levels.…”

Section: Significancementioning

confidence: 94%

Gender disparities in colloquium speakers at top universities

Nittrouer

Hebl

Ashburn-Nardo

et al. 2017

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

166

149

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Colloquium talks at prestigious universities both create and reflect academic researchers' reputations. Gender disparities in colloquium talks can arise through a variety of mechanisms. The current study examines gender differences in colloquium speakers at 50 prestigious US colleges and universities in 2013-2014. Using archival data, we analyzed 3,652 talks in six academic disciplines. Men were more likely than women to be colloquium speakers even after controlling for the gender and rank of the available speakers. Eliminating alternative explanations (e.g., women declining invitations more often than men), our follow-up data revealed that female and male faculty at top universities reported no differences in the extent to which they () valued and () turned down speaking engagements. Additional data revealed that the presence of women as colloquium chairs (and potentially on colloquium committees) increased the likelihood of women appearing as colloquium speakers. Our data suggest that those who invite and schedule speakers serve as gender gatekeepers with the power to create or reduce gender differences in academic reputations.

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“…I also earned acknowledgment from senior faculty at Sonoma who had once believed that I would give teaching the short-shrift to do research. My preparation and detailed feedback on assignments neutralized the complaints and harsh judgments that students frequently handed women professors (Abel and Meltzer 2007;Sinclair and Kunda 2000;Sprague and Massoni 2005). I received other wellintentioned bits of advice that belie life in a teaching institution.…”

Section: Looking Backmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflections from the Middle: Making Sense of Elitism in Our Midst

Charmaz

2008

Am Soc

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This article sketches a personal story of life at a teaching institution when jobs in sociology were scarce. I examine the concept of elitism and situate it in conditions that shaped the discipline of sociology in the 1970s when a growing number of women entered the field. Throughout my story, I raise the following points: (1) Defining elitism requires comprehending its relativity, (2) Understanding what stands as elitism necessitates examining local and national standards for professional performance, (3) Recognizing that unshared standards or lack of awareness of routine standards leads to charges of elitism, and (4) Acknowledging that the discipline's class system hardens into a caste system when jobs are tight and thus fuels elitism. I conclude by reflecting on the place of standards in local sociology departments and the larger discipline.

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Student Ratings of a Male and Female Professors’ Lecture on Sex Discrimination in the Workforce

Cited by 34 publications

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Inventing a Gay Agenda: Students' Perceptions of Lesbian and Gay Professors1

Inventing a Gay Agenda: Students' Perceptions of Lesbian and Gay Professors1

Gender disparities in colloquium speakers at top universities

Reflections from the Middle: Making Sense of Elitism in Our Midst

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