Study finds that men speak twice as often as women do at colloquiums, a difference that can’t be explained away by rank, speaker pool composition or women’s interest in giving talks.

Speakers at academic seminars are the voices and faces of their fields, whether they like it or not. So it’s important that those voices and faces reflect who’s actually working in a given discipline. A new study says that colloquiums continue to fall short on that front, at least in terms of gender.

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