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The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gender gap in research productivity within academia
Using measures of research productivity to assess academic performance puts women at a disadvantage because gender roles and unconscious biases, operating both at home and in academia, can affect research productivity. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on research productivity has been the subject...
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eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10365834/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37410627 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.85427 |
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author | Lee, Kiran GL Mennerat, Adele Lukas, Dieter Dugdale, Hannah L Culina, Antica |
author_facet | Lee, Kiran GL Mennerat, Adele Lukas, Dieter Dugdale, Hannah L Culina, Antica |
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description | Using measures of research productivity to assess academic performance puts women at a disadvantage because gender roles and unconscious biases, operating both at home and in academia, can affect research productivity. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on research productivity has been the subject of a number of studies, including studies based on surveys and studies based on numbers of articles submitted to and/or published in journals. Here, we combine the results of 55 studies that compared the impact of the pandemic on the research productivity of men and women; 17 of the studies were based on surveys, 38 were based on article counts, and the total number of effect sizes was 130. We find that the gender gap in research productivity increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the largest changes occurring in the social sciences and medicine, and the changes in the biological sciences and TEMCP (technology, engineering, mathematics, chemistry and physics) being much smaller. |
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spelling | pubmed-103658342023-07-25 The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gender gap in research productivity within academia Lee, Kiran GL Mennerat, Adele Lukas, Dieter Dugdale, Hannah L Culina, Antica eLife Feature Article Using measures of research productivity to assess academic performance puts women at a disadvantage because gender roles and unconscious biases, operating both at home and in academia, can affect research productivity. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on research productivity has been the subject of a number of studies, including studies based on surveys and studies based on numbers of articles submitted to and/or published in journals. Here, we combine the results of 55 studies that compared the impact of the pandemic on the research productivity of men and women; 17 of the studies were based on surveys, 38 were based on article counts, and the total number of effect sizes was 130. We find that the gender gap in research productivity increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the largest changes occurring in the social sciences and medicine, and the changes in the biological sciences and TEMCP (technology, engineering, mathematics, chemistry and physics) being much smaller. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2023-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10365834/ /pubmed/37410627 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.85427 Text en © 2023, Lee et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Feature Article Lee, Kiran GL Mennerat, Adele Lukas, Dieter Dugdale, Hannah L Culina, Antica The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gender gap in research productivity within academia |
title | The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gender gap in research productivity within academia |
title_full | The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gender gap in research productivity within academia |
title_fullStr | The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gender gap in research productivity within academia |
title_full_unstemmed | The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gender gap in research productivity within academia |
title_short | The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gender gap in research productivity within academia |
title_sort | effect of the covid-19 pandemic on the gender gap in research productivity within academia |
topic | Feature Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10365834/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37410627 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.85427 |
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