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No duh dept.: Scientists are sexist

33371_070827_scoped_hmed_2p.hmedium.jpg Though the tide may be changing, in science it's still often a man's, man's, man's world, and the glass ceiling is made of ultra-hard, bulletproof, Collector-grade lucite.

But double blind-peer review could be a solution: In 2001, the journal Behavioral Ecology instituted double-blind peer review, and significantly more papers by women were accepted. Other environmental journals tracked over the same period that didn't institute a double-blind peer review system didn't experience an increase in the number of accepted papers by women.

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