Media: Press and Reviews


Review of “Misconceiving Merit: Paradoxes of Excellence and Devotion in Academic Science and Engineering”

Contemporary Sociology
November 2023

Quiet Hiring Could Be the Reason You Can’t Find Work-Life Balance

Parents
May 25, 2023

Review of “Misconceiving Merit: Paradoxes of Excellence and Devotion in Academic Science and Engineering

Social Forces
April 2023

Review of Misconceiving Merit

Lectures (a French-language journal of critical assessment and reviews of international social science)
2022

The Science Meritocracy Myth Devalues Women

Science
March 30, 2023

Does Greater Diversity in STEM Require Challenging STEM Professionals’ Beliefs About Science Itself?

SWE Magazine of the Society of Women Engineers
Spring 2023

Review of Misconceiving Merit: Paradoxes of Excellence and Devotion in Academic Science and Engineering, by Mary Blair-Loy and Erin Cech

The Review of Higher Education
Spring 2023

The Myth of Meritocracy in Scientific Institutions

Science
August 18, 2022

Science Inequity Rooted in ‘Moralised’ Worship of ‘Hard Work’

Times Higher Education
July 22, 2022

Mitigating Bias Through Rubrics

Inside Higher Ed
July 11, 2022

‘Misconceiving Merit’

Inside Higher Ed
June 27, 2022

What if It Never Gets Easier to Be a Working Parent?

The New York Times
October 30, 2021

Three Things Lockdowns Have Exposed About Working and Parenting

The New York Times
April 27, 2020

How Parenthood Foils STEM Careers — and Not Just for Women

MarketWatch
March 11, 2019

STEMming the Parent Flow

Inside Higher Ed
February 28, 2019

STEM Careers Are Even Harder On Parents Than We Thought, Study Finds

Time
February 20, 2019

Nearly Half of US Female Scientists Leave Full-Time Science After First Child

Nature News
February 19, 2019

Parenthood Contributes to Gender Imbalance in STEM Employment, But It’s Not Just an Issue for Mother

Science Daily
February 18, 2019

Is Your Family Stressed, Tired and Rushed?

The New York Times
November 6, 2015

The 24/7 Work Culture’s Toll on Families and Gender Equality

The New York Times
May 28, 2015