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Gender Representation on Journal Editorial Boards in the Mathematical Sciences
We study gender representation on the editorial boards of 435 journals in the mathematical sciences. Women are known to comprise approximately 15% of tenure-stream faculty positions in doctoral-granting mathematical sciences departments in the United States. Compared to this group, we find that 8.9%...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4990198/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27536970 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0161357 |
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description | We study gender representation on the editorial boards of 435 journals in the mathematical sciences. Women are known to comprise approximately 15% of tenure-stream faculty positions in doctoral-granting mathematical sciences departments in the United States. Compared to this group, we find that 8.9% of the 13067 editorships in our study are held by women. We describe group variations within the editorships by identifying specific journals, subfields, publishers, and countries that significantly exceed or fall short of this average. To enable our study, we develop a semi-automated method for inferring gender that has an estimated accuracy of 97.5%. Our findings provide the first measure of gender distribution on editorial boards in the mathematical sciences, offer insights that suggest future studies in the mathematical sciences, and introduce new methods that enable large-scale studies of gender distribution in other fields. |
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spelling | pubmed-49901982016-08-29 Gender Representation on Journal Editorial Boards in the Mathematical Sciences Topaz, Chad M. Sen, Shilad PLoS One Research Article We study gender representation on the editorial boards of 435 journals in the mathematical sciences. Women are known to comprise approximately 15% of tenure-stream faculty positions in doctoral-granting mathematical sciences departments in the United States. Compared to this group, we find that 8.9% of the 13067 editorships in our study are held by women. We describe group variations within the editorships by identifying specific journals, subfields, publishers, and countries that significantly exceed or fall short of this average. To enable our study, we develop a semi-automated method for inferring gender that has an estimated accuracy of 97.5%. Our findings provide the first measure of gender distribution on editorial boards in the mathematical sciences, offer insights that suggest future studies in the mathematical sciences, and introduce new methods that enable large-scale studies of gender distribution in other fields. Public Library of Science 2016-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4990198/ /pubmed/27536970 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0161357 Text en © 2016 Topaz, Sen http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Topaz, Chad M. Sen, Shilad Gender Representation on Journal Editorial Boards in the Mathematical Sciences |
title | Gender Representation on Journal Editorial Boards in the Mathematical Sciences |
title_full | Gender Representation on Journal Editorial Boards in the Mathematical Sciences |
title_fullStr | Gender Representation on Journal Editorial Boards in the Mathematical Sciences |
title_full_unstemmed | Gender Representation on Journal Editorial Boards in the Mathematical Sciences |
title_short | Gender Representation on Journal Editorial Boards in the Mathematical Sciences |
title_sort | gender representation on journal editorial boards in the mathematical sciences |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4990198/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27536970 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0161357 |
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