This week’s BWN Friday Post brings you a new paper from Katherine Gelber and colleagues from Australia on how student evaluations are biased against women university teachers, titled “Gendered mundanities: gender bias in student evaluations of teaching in political science”.

Read the paper here.

You can also find a Twitter thread by one of authors discussing the research here.

Student evaluations place unfair and harmful expectations on women university teachers to perform labour-intensive forms of work even when they do not receive lower overall scores. A thread on our new research. 🧵1/11 https://t.co/KhJN7D3pl3

— David Duriesmith (@DavidDuriesmith) March 3, 2022