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Will COVID-19 result in a giant step backwards for women in academic science?
COVID-19 has disproportionately placed women in academic science on the frontlines of domestic and clinical care compared to men. As a result, women in science are publishing less and potentially acquiring less funding during COVID-19 than compared to before. This widens the pre-existing gap between...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9758692/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33705957 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.03.004 |
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author | Shamseer, Larissa Bourgeault, Ivy Grunfeld, Eva Moore, Ainsley Peer, Nazia Straus, Sharon E. Tricco, Andrea C. |
author_facet | Shamseer, Larissa Bourgeault, Ivy Grunfeld, Eva Moore, Ainsley Peer, Nazia Straus, Sharon E. Tricco, Andrea C. |
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description | COVID-19 has disproportionately placed women in academic science on the frontlines of domestic and clinical care compared to men. As a result, women in science are publishing less and potentially acquiring less funding during COVID-19 than compared to before. This widens the pre-existing gap between men and women in prevailing, publication-based measures of productivity used to determine academic career progression. Early career women and those with intersectional identities associated with greater inequities, are facing unique challenges during this time. We argue that women will fall further behind unless academic reward systems adjust how and what they evaluate. We propose several strategies that academic institutions, funders, journals, and men in academic science can take. |
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spelling | pubmed-97586922022-12-19 Will COVID-19 result in a giant step backwards for women in academic science? Shamseer, Larissa Bourgeault, Ivy Grunfeld, Eva Moore, Ainsley Peer, Nazia Straus, Sharon E. Tricco, Andrea C. J Clin Epidemiol Brief Report COVID-19 has disproportionately placed women in academic science on the frontlines of domestic and clinical care compared to men. As a result, women in science are publishing less and potentially acquiring less funding during COVID-19 than compared to before. This widens the pre-existing gap between men and women in prevailing, publication-based measures of productivity used to determine academic career progression. Early career women and those with intersectional identities associated with greater inequities, are facing unique challenges during this time. We argue that women will fall further behind unless academic reward systems adjust how and what they evaluate. We propose several strategies that academic institutions, funders, journals, and men in academic science can take. Elsevier Inc. 2021-06 2021-03-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9758692/ /pubmed/33705957 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.03.004 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Brief Report Shamseer, Larissa Bourgeault, Ivy Grunfeld, Eva Moore, Ainsley Peer, Nazia Straus, Sharon E. Tricco, Andrea C. Will COVID-19 result in a giant step backwards for women in academic science? |
title | Will COVID-19 result in a giant step backwards for women in academic science? |
title_full | Will COVID-19 result in a giant step backwards for women in academic science? |
title_fullStr | Will COVID-19 result in a giant step backwards for women in academic science? |
title_full_unstemmed | Will COVID-19 result in a giant step backwards for women in academic science? |
title_short | Will COVID-19 result in a giant step backwards for women in academic science? |
title_sort | will covid-19 result in a giant step backwards for women in academic science? |
topic | Brief Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9758692/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33705957 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.03.004 |
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