Posted on 12/13/2013 10:43:32 AM PST by reaganaut1
Despite years of progress for women in science, men continue to dominate scientific publishing in nearly every country, according to new research in the journal Nature.
Not only do men publish far more research than their female colleagues, but papers with men as the dominant author are more likely to be cited by other researchers.
Analyzing the bylines on more than five million research papers published from 2008 to 2012, the researchers determined that more than 70 percent of the authors were men. Nearly the same percentage holds for lead authorship.
Such a gender gap is not consistent with the ratio of male to female science students in most countries, suggesting a “leaky pipeline” is at least part of the problem, said the new paper’s author, Cassidy R. Sugimoto, an information scientist at Indiana University.
In almost every country in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, she said, “women are out-matriculating men” in college, “and it’s nearly 50-50 for graduate programs.”
“Where we’re losing them is at the full professor rank,” she continued. “Somehow we’re losing women.”
She emphasized that this did not mean women were naturally unsuited for scientific work, a line of thinking famously expressed by the economist Lawrence H. Summers in 2005, when he was president of Harvard.
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In almost every country in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, she said, “women are out-matriculating men” in college, “and it’s nearly 50-50 for graduate programs.” “Where we’re losing them is at the full professor rank," she continued. “Somehow we’re losing women."It has to do with majors -- women go into social work, public administration, education, anything where the workplace isn't considered competitive (iow, bureaucracy, or non-profits which get money from gov't, teaching). A generation of making the entire employment picture hostile to men hasn't been thorough enough, iow.
Multitasking is doing several things poorly at the same time.
Yes, it’s rather like the old dotcom “we’ll make up for it on volume.”
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