Boring and Phillippe 2021 Reducing Discrimination in the Field

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Boring and Phillippe 2021 Reducing discrimination in the field: Evidence from an awareness-raising intervention targeting gender biases in student evaluations of teaching
Question: What strategies are effective in reducing gender biases and discrimination in Student evaluations of teachers (SETs)?
Evidence: Boring and Phillippe focus on reducing gender biases in student evaluations of teaching when there is growing interest in eliminating discriminatory decisions. The researchers further sought to determine whether gender discrimination can be eliminated in student evaluations of teaching and the best practices to achieve this. Finally, the researchers evaluate the usefulness of anti-bias awareness-raising campaigns to deal with biases and bias consciousness.
Mitchell and Martin 2018 Gender Bias in Student Evaluations
Question: How and why gender bias affects student evaluations of teaching in universities?
Evidence: Student evaluations of teachers (SETs) are frequently used in universities to assess individuals for tenure, employment, and compensation, but discriminatory practices have disproportionately affected female academics. The evidence in the article is a comparison of teaching evaluation outcomes for male and female language students assessed by male professors.
Schilt 2006 Just one of the Guys
Question: How gender and, to a smaller extent, race explains workplace inequalities in the cisgendered workplace?
Evidence:  In the article, Schilt sought to understand and explain the experiences of gendered workplace inequalities among transgender men who changed their gender from male to female. The female-to-male transsexuals (FTMs) are unique as they identify as male but are still outsiders in the male-centric workplaces. The researcher focused on white trans men and highlighted that they tended to gain privileges in the workplace when they identified as male compared to transgender men of color.
Weakness:The participants' perceptions of work experiences are subjective, ...