No Gender Bias in Science

Two Cornell scholars have done a serious job of looking for gender bias in science and they find none. A summary of their findings is here in National Review Online, the actual research can be read here in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

What do they conclude explains the underrepresentation of women in science?

Ceci and Williams demonstrate that the real problem most women scientists confront is the challenge of combining motherhood with a high-powered science career. This issue, they say, will never be solved by the “misplaced focus on discrimination.”