Students are more likely to rate male university teachers higher than their female counterparts in some areas of STEM and Business, according to Australia’s largest review of student experience surveys.
The study examined almost 525,000 individual student experience surveys from Sydney students from 2010 to 2016 across five faculties and found a male teacher from an English-speaking background was more than twice as likely to get a higher score on a student evaluation than a female teacher from a non-English speaking background.
The study also shows in the Business and Science faculties in particular, male English-speaking teachers have the strongest probability of getting the highest possible grade.