论文署名当中的性别偏见

玛蒂尔达效应

8.6

[英]艾莉·欧文 / 2020 / 中信出版集团

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abe4639

Abstract

Authorship is the primary form of symbolic capital in science. Despite this, authorship is rife with injustice and malpractice, with women expressing concerns regarding the fair attribution of credit.

Based on an international survey, we examine gendered practices in authorship communication, disagreement, and fairness.

Our results demonstrate that

• women were more likely to experience authorship disagreements and experience them more often.
• Their contributions to research papers were more often devalued by both men and women.
• Women were more likely to discuss authorship with coauthors at the beginning of the project, whereas men were more likely to determine authorship unilaterally at the end.
• Women perceived that they received less credit than deserved, while men reported the opposite.
• This devaluation of women’s work in science creates cumulative disadvantages in scientific careers.

Open discussion regarding power dynamics related to gender is necessary to develop more equitable distribution of credit for scientific labor.

Data and materials availability: All data needed to evaluate the conclusions in the paper are present in the paper and/or the Supplementary Materials. Aggregated and /or deidentified data by gender, discipline, country, and rank for analyses are available on GitHub (https://github.com/UWMadisonMetaScience/gendered_authorship).