Who Resembles a Scientific Leader-Jack or Jill? How Implicit Bias Could Influence Research Grant Funding

Christine Kolehmainen¹, Molly Carnes^{2

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Affiliations

¹ William S. Middleton Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI (C.K.).
² Department of Medicine (M.C.) mlcarnes@wisc.edu.
³ Center for Women's Health Research (M.C.).
⁴ School of Medicine and Public Health; and Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (M.C.).
⁵ Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute (WISELI) (M.C.), College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Christine Kolehmainen et al. Circulation. 2018.

. 2018 Feb 20;137(8):769-770.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.031295.

Christine Kolehmainen¹, Molly Carnes^{2

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¹ William S. Middleton Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI (C.K.).
² Department of Medicine (M.C.) mlcarnes@wisc.edu.
³ Center for Women's Health Research (M.C.).
⁴ School of Medicine and Public Health; and Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (M.C.).
⁵ Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute (WISELI) (M.C.), College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

No abstract available

Keywords: bias; cardiologists; cardiovascular diseases; research support as topic; sexism; women.

Conflict of interest statement

Disclosure: No Conflict of Interest

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