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Muslim researcher: ‘I do not understand how gender politics works out in the West’ An academic journal is giving potential veto power over submitted papers to “groups concerned by the findings,” following outrage over a published paper that concluded male mentors are better for female scientists. Nature Communications revised its internal guidelines last week to consider “the dimension of potential harm” that a paper can inflict on concerned groups. It also announced that the three authors – two of whom are female – had retracted the mentorship paper because its “conclusions...

29 Dec 2020 A research paper concluding that working with female mentors might hurt young women’s careers in the sciences has been retracted after fierce criticism from “group email threads” and on social media. The academic journal that published the paper apologized for “any unintended harm derived from the publication of this paper.” A study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications was retracted following backlash from people who were uncomfortable with the paper’s findings, according to a report by Inside Higher Ed. The research paper studied a variety o...

Retracting a Bad Take on Female Mentorship Authors withdraw controversial article concluding that working with a female mentor might hurt young scientists' careers. By Nadia Bormotova/iStock via Getty Images Plus The authors of a widely criticized article on the supposed drawbacks of female mentorship in science retracted the paper, one month after Nature Communications said it was looking into how and why the research was published in the first place. “We are an interdisciplinary team of scientists with an unwavering commitment to gender equity, and a dedication to scientific integrity,�...