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Equity for Women in Science
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Equity for Women in Science

Dismantling Systemic Barriers to Advancement

Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière
Harvard UP, 2023

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Professors Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière present a data-packed study of the global gender divide in science, highlighting barriers hampering women. Based on quantitative analysis of millions of published articles across various disciplines, the authors reveal that women are consistently shortchanged on funding and crucial accolades, including awards, authorship credits and citations. Armed with empirical data, Sugimoto and Larivière suggest several solutions and urge male scientists, journal editors, grant funders and the scientific community to include women more systematically.

Take-Aways

  • Gender parity in scientific research does not guarantee gender equity.
  • A global publishing gap prevails between men and women in science.
  • A scientific journal byline is the main form of public credit for research; men’s names are likelier to appear in the high-status first or last slots.

About the Authors

Professor Cassidy R. Sugimoto teaches at Georgia Tech and serves as the Tom and Marie Patton Chair in the School of Public Policy. Vincent Larivière is a full professor of Information Science at the Université de Montréal and directs the Érudit journal platform.

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    M. V. 10 months ago
    Thanks to this summary I now know that this book is to be avoided. At no point is the fact that women in the US despite best efforts still only account for 25% of the physics degrees in Universities. What if women were just less interested in physics, just as men are less interested in psychology (BTW at about the same percentage)… what if it was mostly dictated by nature and not nurture? I am hoping the answer is in the book.