Gender diversity leads to better science
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017•National Acad Sciences
Pick up any recent policy paper on women's participation in science and you will find
assurances that gender diversity enhances knowledge outcomes. Universities and science-
policy stakeholders, including the European Commission and the US National Institutes of
Health, readily subscribe to this argument (1–3). But is there, in fact, a gender-diversity
dividend in science? The data suggest that there is. Under the right conditions, teams may
benefit from various types of diversity, including scientific discipline, work experience …
assurances that gender diversity enhances knowledge outcomes. Universities and science-
policy stakeholders, including the European Commission and the US National Institutes of
Health, readily subscribe to this argument (1–3). But is there, in fact, a gender-diversity
dividend in science? The data suggest that there is. Under the right conditions, teams may
benefit from various types of diversity, including scientific discipline, work experience …
Pick up any recent policy paper on women’s participation in science and you will find assurances that gender diversity enhances knowledge outcomes. Universities and science-policy stakeholders, including the European Commission and the US National Institutes of Health, readily subscribe to this argument (1–3). But is there, in fact, a gender-diversity dividend in science?
The data suggest that there is. Under the right conditions, teams may benefit from various types of diversity, including scientific discipline, work experience, gender, ethnicity, and nationality. In this paper, we highlight gender diversity (Fig. 1). Guided by key research findings, we propose the following
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