Data reveal that to earn credit on scientific articles, women need to work harder than men.
Measuring what isn’t there, however, is challenging. To overcome this, Matthew Ross, an economist at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and his colleagues used a large data set on almost 10,000 research teams in the United States to investigate who did and did not receive credit for work.
To estimate the potential authorships that women missed out on, the authors compared the team members employed a year before a paper’s publication date — the pool of potential authors — with the actual authors listed on the manuscript. They found that across all job titles and fields, men had double women’s chances of being named on any scientific document.
Both men and women said they had been excluded from papers to which they had contributed, but women were disproportionately affected. The most common reason researchers gave for not getting an author slot was that others underestimated their scientific contribution; 49% of women reported this, compared with 39% of men. Although respondents didn’t often mention feeling discriminated against, women were twice as likely to mention it as men.
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