STEM hiring - female applicants preferred 2:1 over male applicants

https://www.pnas.org/content/112/17/5360

and men prefer to hire women who take parental leave while women don't

"Results revealed a 2:1 preference for women by faculty of both genders across both math-intensive and non–math-intensive fields, with the single exception of male economists, who showed no gender preference"

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