CERCA centres and their research community base their work on respect and equality between all involved. Both the management of research and the policies of eligibility, employability, institutional representation, distribution of resources and evaluation must be based on the fair assessment of people and avoid possible biases and discriminatory tendencies.
Although women have begun to enter some scientific fields in greater numbers, their mere increased presence is not evidence of the absence of bias. To the extent that faculty gender bias impedes women’s full participation in science, it may undercut not only academic meritocracy, but also the expansion of the scientific workforce needed for the next decade’s advancement of national competitiveness. (Corinne A. Moss-Racusin [et al.], 2012).
