Underrepresentation of Women in Robotics Research [Women in Engineering]

IF 5.4 3区计算机科学 Q1 AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS

IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine Pub Date : 2024-03-18 DOI:10.1109/mra.2024.3352439

Elizabeth Fields, Chloe Ho, Min Jie Kim, Zixuan Wu, Brian Plancher

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Abstract

Computer science (CS) and engineering research both have large and well-documented gender diversity gaps [1] , [2] , [3] . In fact, previous studies have reported that the overall CS female author ratio (FAR) is only in the range of 16%–26% [1] , [3] , [4] . As shown in Table 1 , recent evidence shows that this number varies significantly among CS subfields, ranging from as high as 42% in CS education to as low as 8% in theory and algorithms [1] , [4] . Furthermore, while recent work has shown that the diversity in conference leadership has increased substantially over recent years [5] and that the state of gender diversity in marine robotics ranges from 7% to 44% across various countries in Europe [6] , there has not been a comprehensive study analyzing the current state of gender diversity across the broader overall field of robotics.

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女性在机器人研究领域的代表性不足 [工程界女性］

计算机科学（CS）和工程研究在性别多样性方面都存在巨大的差距，这一点已得到充分证明 [1]、[2]、[3]。事实上，以往的研究报告显示，CS 的女性作者比例（FAR）仅为 16%-26%[1],[3],[4]。如表 1 所示，最近的证据表明，这一数字在 CS 子领域之间存在显著差异，从 CS 教育领域高达 42% 到理论与算法领域低至 8% [1]，[4]。此外，虽然最近的研究表明，近年来会议领导层的多样性有了大幅提高[5]，而且欧洲各国海洋机器人领域的性别多样性状况从 7% 到 44% 不等[6]，但还没有一项全面的研究对机器人学这一更广泛的整体领域的性别多样性现状进行分析。

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IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine 工程技术-机器人学

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8.80

自引率

1.80%

发文量

100

审稿时长

>12 weeks

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