Feminist Gender Study Debunked

Claimed that women had to be 2.4 times more qualified than men to achieve equal success in academia and defined public policy.

An influential Swedish study from 1997, which claimed that women had to be 2.4 times more qualified than men to achieve equal success in academia, does not hold up under scrutiny. A new analysis shows that the conclusion was based on serious methodological errors – instead, the results suggest that men’s competence was underestimated.

In the spring of 19…