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  • Umeå University annual academic ceremony in 2019 for new professors, honorary doctors and award recipients. Photo by Mattias Pettersson

    Sex differences in merits amongst newly appointed professors

    Women constitute only 27 percent of academics with the rank of professor in Sweden, in spite of several decades of equal opportunities promotion efforts. "A common explanation is that women’s achievements are valued less than men’s," says Guy Madison, one of the authors of a new study from Umeå University.