Unravelling the gender productivity gap in science: a meta-analytical review.

ABSTRACT: Women underrepresentation in science has frequently been associated with women being less productive than men (i.e. the gender productivity gap), which may be explained by women having lower success rates, producing science of lower impact and/or suffering gender bias. By performing global meta-analyses, we show that there is a gender productivity gap mostly supported by a larger scientific production ascribed to men. However, women and men show similar success rates when the researchers' work is directly evaluated (i.e. publishing articles). Men's success rate is higher only in productivity proxies involving peer recognition (e.g. evaluation committees, academic positions). Men's articles showed a tendency to have higher global impact but only if studies include self-citations. We detecte

SUBMITTER: Astegiano J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6599789 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature