Professors in their department’s gender minority receive worse ratings from students, potentially hurting their chances for tenure and promotion, ScienceCareers reports.
Universities routinely use student teaching evaluations to help make decisions about which faculty members get tenure and promotions. But factors unrelated to teaching performance, such as gender, race, and even attractiveness, can skew these evaluations, potentially exacerbating existing inequities in academia.. For example, in upper level courses, women teaching in predominantly male departments tend to fare worse in their student evaluations, according to a study published this week in the.
To see whether this bias held true for university instructors, Aragón and colleagues sifted through more than 100,000 evaluations from 4700 courses at Clemson University, a U.S. public R1 university. They found that if more men were in a department, women had lower average student evaluation ratings when teaching higher level courses, and vice versa. In departments with roughly equal numbers of men and women, this bias disappeared.
Moving departments closer to gender parity could help ease biases in teaching evaluations, the authors suggest. Until that happens, they propose putting similar emphasis on the achievements of men and women within university departments and that both men and women should teach lower and upper level courses.
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