Ann L. Brower

The compounding costs of being female in academia: Individual-based modelling of career progression and interventions

This paper develops an individual-based model of academic career progression, finding that multiple factors compound to slow women's advancement and showing that gender parity at high ranks requires equalizing hiring rates across gender, rank, and discipline.

Female-dominated disciplines have lower evaluated research quality and funding success rates, for men and women

The paper finds that female-dominated disciplines have lower research quality evaluations and funding success rates, affecting both men and women.