1 Gender (In)Equity in the Academy:* Subtle Mechanisms and the Reproduction of Inequality

Researchers have shifted in recent years from explanations that posit overt discrimination as the causal mechanism reproducing gender inequity, to more subtle forms of favoritism and/or barriers to advancement. Working in the latter tradition, we focus on how subtle sex biases operate in academia, through nonconscious beliefs and attitudes that operate through workplace interactions, and through the use of subjective policies and procedures institutionalized in the academic workplace. We examine these issues with qualitative and quantitative data from an arts & sciences (A&S) unit of a public research university. We use our quantitative data to assess the extent to which unequal outcomes persist in the academic workplace, and our qualitative data to flesh out the mechanisms whereby those unequal outcomes are reproduced