The researchers took two online course instructors, one male and one female, and gave them two classes to teach. Each professor presented as his or her own gender to one class and the opposite to the other.
The results were astonishing. Students gave professors they thought were male much higher evaluations across the board than they did professors they thought were female, regardless of what gender the professors actually were.
See the full article here.
Feminist Philosophers 
The link does’t seem to work
Fixed it, thanks.
I have sometimes wondered whether there isn’t an easy fix for this: colleges can simply adjust overall scores by a factor that corresponds to the measured student bias at that institution. If male teachers get 15% higher scores at college X, female profs have their scores adjusted up 15%, assuming the number of profs overall is statistically significant. Certainly there would be individual cases where this might result in inaccurate evaluations, but that is surely better than the current system, where gender bias guarantees inaccurate evaluations.
The Slate author doesn’t seem to link to the actual study; here it is: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10755-014-9313-4/fulltext.html
Just as a heads up: this article came out last year, and we put a post up about it then, if anyone wants to reads through the comments from there:
https://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/2014/12/09/student-evaluations-and-gender/
(I wish the date for news stories were a little more prominent sometimes; it can be hard to catch whether an article is old, especially if it’s currently being passed around and the day and month match.)
So, how do you get colleges to stop doing evals–and using them for personnel decisions? My place makes big noises about ‘diversity’, funds a LGBT student organization, has gender studies and ethnic studies programs, etc. but is putting increasing pressure on my department to require us to submit evals for assessment. I’ve said that whatever happens I will not do it.