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Re:Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men by nostrebored on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @05:45PM (#12688784)
Thanks for the tip, the actual studies cited by the article you link to state:

"Pre-charge characteristics, including arrest offense and criminal history, can explain about 80% of these disparities" [1]

1. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1985377

Re:Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men by mpweiher on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @06:06PM (#12688909)
Reading really, really helps.

Sigh.

The study you linked is titled "Racial Disparity in Federal Criminal Charging and Its Sentencing Consequences", says so right at the top, you just have to read it. It is not the study talked about in the press-release I linked to. It is referenced in said press-release as the "previous study" that found racial disparities, which were found to be 6 times smaller than the gender disparities found in the study that the press release is about.

Which is this one:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2144002

Re:Women rise through the ranks of IT more rapidly than men by nostrebored on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @10:57AM (#12693420)
You're right, sorry, I was hasty in reading the linked materials.

Here is another contradictory study [1], along with a link to an ABA article explaining why some differences in sentencing should not only be expected, but potentially encouraged [2].

1. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-9125.1993.... 2. http://www.americanbar.org/publications/criminal_justice_mag...