> We followed up our research with a survey of 231 academics, asking for their attitudes towards discrimination in hiring to editorial boards. Although two-thirds of academics supported no bias, for every 1 academic who supported discrimination in favour of men, 11 supported discrimination in favour of women. Our results were consistent with the hypothesis that academics and journal editors are biased in favour of women, rather than against women

Do not surprise me at all, and qualitatively the bias favoring women has seemed to be true in my experience.

HOWEVER, it's very hard to give this paper any credibility when the authors are willing to casually drop a statement like

> As mentioned, the variance in intelligence is higher amongst males, and their average also seems to be somewhat higher

On the third page. I'm aware there have been one or two studies to this effect, but a quality like "intelligence" is so amorphous, and any attempts to measure it are surely met with confounding variables, and even if treated statistically carefully is such a controversial topic, it really just makes me feel like the authors performed this study with a certain agenda / chip on their shoulder. You may notice that both authors are men.