{"id":665,"date":"2018-01-30T16:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/?p=665"},"modified":"2018-01-30T16:00:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T16:00:48","slug":"fields-reputation-precedes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2018\/01\/30\/fields-reputation-precedes\/","title":{"rendered":"When a Field&#8217;s Reputation Precedes It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theories abound as to why women remain underrepresented in many fields.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.3102\/0002831217740221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A new study<\/a>\u00a0says that perceived gender bias in a given discipline is the primary criterion women use for selecting a college major, not the perception that a field is science or math oriented (sorry,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2005\/02\/18\/summers2_18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry Summers<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2018\/01\/25\/study-finds-given-disciplines-perceived-gender-bias-not-math-biggest-predictor\">entire post<\/a> here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theories abound as to why women remain underrepresented in many fields.\u00a0A new study\u00a0says that perceived gender bias in a given discipline is the primary criterion women use for selecting a college major, not the perception that a field is science or math oriented (sorry,\u00a0Larry Summers). Read the entire post here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}