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DOI: 10.1615/JWomenMinorScienEng.v10.i4
Pages: 116
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DOI: 10.1615/JWomenMinorScienEng.v10.i4.40
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DOES GENDER AFFECT A SCIENTIST'S RESEARCH OUTPUT IN EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY?
Xavier Bonnet
Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chize
Richard Shine
University of Sydney
Olivier Lourdais
Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chize
ABSTRACT
To examine how an author's gender influences his or her research output, the authors analyzed (not simply scored) more than 900 published articles in nine leading scientific journals in the field of evolutionary ecology. Women were strongly underrepresented in all countries, but this bias is decreasing. Men and women differed significantly in their fields of research, with women preferentially conducting projects on behavior rather than evolution or ecology. Most aspects of the structure of published articles and the level of conceptual generality were unaffected by an author's gender. Because discriminatory practices by reviewers and editors can be manifested in attributes of the articles that survive the review process, the latter result suggests a lack of gender-based discrimination during the review process. Gender differences in research output presumably reflect a complex array of genetic and social influences; a clearer understanding of these causal factors may help identify (and thus reduce) gender-based discrimination.
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