Projects are springing up that bring to light men’s unfair advantage in the field of science.
For example, the Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US runs workshops for faculty chairmen of search committees. Part of the aim of these workshops is to point out the tendency we all have to take an unfairly doubtful view of women’s achievements and abilities. Promisingly, science departments that sent at least one faculty member to such a workshop ended up with a 19 per cent increase in new female assistant professors, compared with a dismal 23 per cent decline in departments that did not participate.