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2026-07-24 17:27 UTC
Update. "We calculated the ratio between the overall share of female authors and the share of female corresponding authors [in >220 million publications by ≈ 60 million authors, over the last 125 years]…Our analyses reveal a continuous increase in overall female participation, rising from approximately 10% in the 1910s to over 40% in recent years…However, over the past two decades, this trend has globally inverted, indicating a decline of the traditional [disparity]…Despite these overarching trends, significant disciplinary and regional differences persist."
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.15059
#Gender #GenderBias
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@petersuber@fediscience.org 2026-07-24 17:38
Update. "In STEM fields, women first and last authors make fewer novelty claims [defined as "rhetorical statements that frame research as novel"] than men, and this is associated with fewer citations. In humanities and social sciences, novelty claims remain positively associated with citations, but there are no gender differences in their use or in citations." https://doi.org/10.1177/08912432261462166 #Gender #GenderBias #Disciplines