Stereotyping prime obstacle to women in commercial science

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - 13:01 in Psychology & Sociology

Female professors are almost 50 percent less likely than their male counterparts to be invited to join corporate scientific advisory boards (SABs) and start new companies mainly because of gender stereotyping, says University of Maryland researcher Waverly Ding, an assistant professor of management at the Robert H. Smith School of Business.

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