![](https://www.europeanwomeninmaths.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/review-min-1170x750.png)
Gender bias in peer review: studies and reports
Written by Olga Lukina
Below we’ve collected a few links to studies on gender bias in peer-review, and a discussion of pluses and minuses of the `double-blind’ review process proposed by some to amend the problem.
http://blog.sciencewomen.com/2008/01/peer-review-and-gender-bias.html
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/03/13/2187545.htm
Two of the links above refer to a paper by Budden et al., which have been found to have some methodological problems
http://deepthoughtsandsilliness.blogspot.de/2008/01/gender-differences-n…
and the analysis in this paper was critised in, for example,
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169534708001389
We thank Anna Grybos and Bob O’Hara for providing this information.
We thank Kirsi Peltonen for providing a link to an online test, which allows one to have a glimpse at how subconscious attitudes and stereotypes influence one’s decisions