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From Holman et al. (2018), this figure shows the
percentage of women authors per country and in
four illustrative disciplines. |
A recent paper published in PLOS Biology (Holman, Stuart-Fox & Hauser) investigated the gender gap in the Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine (STEMM) workforce by determining the numbers of men and women authors listed on > 10 million academic papers published since 2002. They find that many research fields (including computer science and physics) will likely not reach gender parity this century. They also find that women were less likely to be approached to write invited papers by journal editors.
Read the results at:
http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2004956
Read an article on this study by Ed Yong at the Atlantic:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/when-will-the-gender-gap-in-science-disappear/558413/
