Is Progress Taboo? Media Not Too Excited about Giant Study That Finds Little Evidence of Gender Pay Gap

Treatment of women in the academic sciences has “dramatically improved”

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Imagine a giant meta analysis that examined two decade’s-worth of research on the hot-button issue of gender pay disparities. Imagine that its findings challenged conventional wisdom and also gave the next generation reason to be a bit more optimistic about the future. 

That’s what we have with a new study by academics fr…