Gender Gap in All Academic Fields Over Time

IF 3 2区社会学 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS

Social Science Computer Review Pub Date : 2024-08-08 DOI:10.1177/08944393241270633

Dariusz Jemielniak, Maciej Wilamowski

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Abstract

Academic publishing gender gap has been surprisingly under covered across all disciplines and over a longer timeframe. Our study fills this gap, by analyzing how the proportions of women authors change in academic publications over 20 years in all fields from 31,219 journals from 2001 to 2021. Our results indicate that the ratio of female to male authors keeps increasing steadily across disciplines. The increases are field-neutral—in other words, they are not bigger, for example, in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, in spite of multiple initiatives focusing specifically on STEM. The increases are also decelerating in time, which could suggest that the equilibrium of female to male authors may be plateauing. Finally, although the within-field gender gap is decreasing, it actually widened between fields. Thus, our results have major consequences for science policy in the area of the gender gap.

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所有学术领域的性别差距随时间变化

令人惊讶的是，学术出版性别差距在所有学科和更长的时间框架内都没有得到充分关注。我们的研究填补了这一空白，从 2001 年至 2021 年的 31219 种期刊中，分析了 20 年间女性作者在各领域学术出版物中所占比例的变化情况。我们的研究结果表明，各学科中女性作者与男性作者的比例一直在稳步上升。这种增长是中性的--换句话说，尽管有多项专门针对科学、技术、工程和数学的计划，但这些增长在科学、技术、工程和数学等领域并不明显。这种增长在时间上也在减速，这可能表明女性与男性作者之间的平衡可能正在趋于稳定。最后，虽然领域内的性别差距在缩小，但领域间的差距实际上在扩大。因此，我们的研究结果对性别差距领域的科学政策具有重大影响。

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来源期刊

Social Science Computer Review 社会科学-计算机：跨学科应用

CiteScore

9.00

自引率

4.90%

发文量

审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Unique Scope Social Science Computer Review is an interdisciplinary journal covering social science instructional and research applications of computing, as well as societal impacts of informational technology. Topics included: artificial intelligence, business, computational social science theory, computer-assisted survey research, computer-based qualitative analysis, computer simulation, economic modeling, electronic modeling, electronic publishing, geographic information systems, instrumentation and research tools, public administration, social impacts of computing and telecommunications, software evaluation, world-wide web resources for social scientists. Interdisciplinary Nature Because the Uses and impacts of computing are interdisciplinary, so is Social Science Computer Review. The journal is of direct relevance to scholars and scientists in a wide variety of disciplines. In its pages you''ll find work in the following areas: sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, psychology, computer literacy, computer applications, and methodology.