{"id":775,"date":"2016-03-18T13:29:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T13:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/atomic-manipulation\/?p=775"},"modified":"2016-03-18T13:34:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T13:34:45","slug":"gender-biased-coursework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/atomic-manipulation\/?p=775","title":{"rendered":"Gender biased coursework?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is my 2nd year coursework sexist?<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/atomic-manipulation\/?p=719\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/atomic-manipulation\/?p=764\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/atomic-manipulation\/?p=772\">here <\/a>for the background, 2014 analysis and the 2014+2015 analysis.<\/p>\n<p>As part of a drive to remove the gender imbalance in the sciences the Department of Physics at Bath is involved with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecu.ac.uk\/equality-charters\/athena-swan\/\">AthenaSWAN <\/a>program. One item of note from the analysis of the degree outcome (sorry I can't find a link for that) has a slight (and perhaps statistically insignificant) imbalance in the degree outcome and gender. So the questions I wish to address here is was the coursework I set sexist? It is heavily based on the maths of quantum physics, and\u00a0was so abstract as to have, to my mind, no gender implications.<\/p>\n<p>The data:<\/p>\n<p>Here are three sets of graphs for the combined 2014 + 2015 cohort, for males, females and all students.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/atomic-manipulation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2016\/03\/gender.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"776\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/atomic-manipulation\/?attachment_id=776\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/atomic-manipulation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2016\/03\/gender.png\" data-orig-size=\"1921,922\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"gender\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/atomic-manipulation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2016\/03\/gender-1024x491.png\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-776 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/atomic-manipulation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2016\/03\/gender-1024x491.png\" alt=\"gender\" width=\"1024\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/atomic-manipulation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2016\/03\/gender-1024x491.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/atomic-manipulation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2016\/03\/gender-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/atomic-manipulation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/34\/2016\/03\/gender.png 1921w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What we see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our women students are more likely to submit the coursework.<\/li>\n<li>The exam mark boost attained by completing the coursework was, to a large degree, consistent for women and for men.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Conclusion<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The coursework is indeed gender neutral<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is my 2nd year coursework sexist? See here and here and here for the background, 2014 analysis and the 2014+2015 analysis. As part of a drive to remove the gender imbalance in the sciences the Department of Physics at Bath...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athena-swan","category-teaching"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/atomic-manipulation\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/atomic-manipulation\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/atomic-manipulation\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/atomic-manipulation\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/atomic-manipulation\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/atomic-manipulation\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/atomic-manipulation\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/atomic-manipulation\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/atomic-manipulation\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}