Women are more likely to win awards that aren’t named after a person than prizes named after a man, research has found
Some researchers have suggested mechanisms for the possible connection between prizewinners and award names. Unconscious bias could influence award-committee members to select winners who resemble the role model the prize is named after, says Johanna Stadmark, a geologist at Lund University in Sweden, who watched the EGU presentation virtually.
Curt Rice, president of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Oslo and an advocate for gender equality in academia, says that prize names could somehow prime committees to think of men if an award is named after a man — although he is not yet convinced that there is a causal link. It would be important to examine nomination procedures and award-committee compositions before drawing any firm conclusions, he adds.
A lack of demographic data on awardees was an issue, says Krause. Data on their race or ethnicity were rarely available, and for some prizes the pair assigned a winner as male or female on the basis of just their name, which Krause admits is flawed and neglects non-binary genders. For this reason, he and Gehmlich plan to confirm their data with the awarding bodies, he adds.
Societies should publish anonymized data on gender, including non-binary genders, along with the race and ethnicity of winners and nominees, says Pallavi Anand, an Earth and environmental scientist at the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK, who watched the presentation. They should be more open about their awards processes and rethink naming awards after people altogether, she adds.
Fixing an imbalance in prizewinners should be much easier than addressing other long-term issues, such as gender balance among full professors, adds Rice. “Prizes are an excellent way to get role models in the limelight, which in turn could change the gender balance of the field,” he says.Krause, S. & Gehmlich, K. EGU General Assembly 2022 https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-2562 .
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