In  this episode of the BJPod, we have new hosts and a few new  perspectives. In this iteration, our new hosts discuss the challenges  that face women pursuing a career in STEM in India. Starting from the  early motivating factors for a career in Science to the challenges that  come with being a minority in a typical engineering classroom, this pod  has it all. Also, how does it feel to be in an all-girls engineering  college? In the second segment of the pod, the hosts discuss the  questions that faced them while deciding to opt for higher education  overseas. Finally, they discuss how ultra-competitive workplaces can  often be insensitive to women without acknowledging it. As with all our  episodes, the hosts end with a discussion on how they found their  politics.

All this and more, on this episode!

1.) http://www.pnas.org/content/109/41/16474.abstract1. Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students

2. Gender Bias at Work Turns Up in Feedback

https://www.wsj.com/articles/gender-bias-at-work-turns-up-in-feedback-1443600759

3. Getting a Job: Is There a Motherhood Penalty?

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/511799

4. The Paradox of Meritocracy in Organizations

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2189/asqu.2010.55.4.543

5. Gender Quotas and the Crisis of the Mediocre Man: Theory and Evidence from Sweden

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2465902

Fun bias test to take:

click on the Gender-Science IAT here

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/selectatest.html