Research analyzed 5.5 million research papers, 27.3 million
authorships worldwide
Whether from the trickle-down effects of having fewer female
elders in science or the increased opportunities for male researchers to
participate in international collaborations, barriers to women in science
remain widespread worldwide, according to new work led by Indiana University
School of Informatics and Computing professors.
The new cross-disciplinary quantitative analysis of academic
publication patterns relating gender and research output found that female
authors were underrepresented at a 30 percent to 70 percent authorship rate
with males, and that for every female first author on a scientific paper there
were nearly two (1.93) male first authors.