This week a woman scientist tweeted sexist comments made about one of her studies during the peer-review process. BuzzFeed News asked for more stories, and discovered that this kind of thing isn’t all that uncommon.
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Earlier this week, Fiona Ingleby, a genetics researcher at University of Sussex, in the U.K., tweeted some shocking comments one of her studies had received during peer review, the venerated process that scientists use to evaluate each others' work.
In the study, Ingleby and another woman, Megan Head, had found that male scientists graduate from PhD programs with more co-authored papers, on average, than female graduates.
One particular anonymous reviewer told the women that their paper needed a man. Adding a male author to the paper, the reviewer wrote, would "serve as a possible check against interpretations that may sometimes be drifting too far away from empirical evidence into ideologically biased assumptions."
There was more. The reviewer suggested that men write better papers "simply because men, perhaps, on average work more hours per week than women, due to marginally better health and stamina."
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