The missing colours of chemistry

Menon, Binuraj R. K.

doi:10.1038/s41557-020-00632-8

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“…Incidences of academic bullying have been discussed extensively over the past couple of years in the scientific literature, social media, and the popular press. 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 However, recent systematic reviews of harassment in academia reveal that anti-harassment and non-discrimination policies over the past 30 years have had no discernible effect. 6 Our findings suggest that this could partly be due to policies being too generic and not paying sufficient attention to discipline-specific bullying behaviors.…”

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The need for the development of discipline-specific approaches to address academic bullying

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The need for the development of discipline-specific approaches to address academic bullying

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“…Our paper also contributes to the literature tackling the lack of diversity in the scientific community. The disproportionate underrepresentation of female and minority faculties persists in various STEM fields (Puritty et al, 2017;AlShebli, Rahwan and Woon, 2018;Menon, 2021) and economics (Bayer and Rouse, 2016;Buckles, 2019;Boustan and Langan, 2019). Existing literature has proposed several approaches to address this disparity, such as revising the reward system in science (Hofstra et al, 2020;Davies et al, 2021), targeted mentoring (Guevara et al, 2013;Bayer and Rouse, 2016;Buckles, 2019), and improved support and opportunities (Xu, 2008;Khan et al, 2019).…”

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NIH Grant Expansion, Ancestral Diversity and Scientific Discovery in Genomics Research

Fu¹,

Wang²

2022

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We thank Feng Liu, Seth Richards-Shubik, Muzhe Yang and Fanny Leung for their valuable comments. All errors are our own. This study was supported by National Institute on Aging (U24AG041689, U54AG052427). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peer-reviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications.

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“…The purpose of this study was to determine if the cultural information derived from textbooks correlates to the observed disparity in racial representation in the field of chemistry. People of color (POC) are underrepresented in chemistry, − and there has been little improvement over time. , Since persistence in STEM is coupled to a sense of belonging, − we sought to understand the messaging conveyed to students through general chemistry textbooks. General chemistry was chosen because it provides critical orientation to the field and is the highest enrollment chemistry course at most colleges and universities…”

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College Chemistry Textbooks Aid and Abet Racial Disparity

Becker

Nilsson

2022

J. Chem. Educ.

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This study examines the representation of people of color in 10 US general chemistry textbooks published between 2016 and 2020. On average, people of color appear every 320 pages of text, while white figures are observed every 24 pages. The average percentage of people of color in the textbooks (12%) is well below the percentage in the US general population (40%), college population (46%), and science technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workforce (33%). Of the images that do include people of color, 26% portray explicitly negative stereotypes (e.g., unclean, poor, sick, primitive, unskilled) and only 31% depict STEM activities. Several textbooks in this study were reported in 2007 to contain racial bias, but no evidence of improvement was observed. To understand the persistence of racial bias, biographical information was used to illuminate the values held by the eight scientists that all 10 textbooks have in common. These eight universally prominent scientists include a lifelong supporter and profiteer of slavery, a trustee of the Human Betterment Foundation (an organization promoting mandatory sterilization for "race betterment"), an executive board member of the Swedish Society for Racial Hygiene, an anti-Semitic bigamist, and a modern advocate of eugenics. We posit that general chemistry textbooks reveal two mechanisms by which racial disparity in STEM is preserved and advanced: (1) through the invisibility and negative stereotyping of people of color and (2) via an oblivious idolatry of scientists who have promoted racist ideologies.

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The missing colours of chemistry

Cited by 25 publications

References 26 publications

The need for the development of discipline-specific approaches to address academic bullying

The need for the development of discipline-specific approaches to address academic bullying

NIH Grant Expansion, Ancestral Diversity and Scientific Discovery in Genomics Research

College Chemistry Textbooks Aid and Abet Racial Disparity

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