Female-dominated disciplines have lower evaluated research quality and funding success rates, for men and women
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2024-07-19
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ANZSRC::310202 Biological network analysis, ANZSRC::310112 Structural biology (incl. macromolecular modelling), ANZSRC::400305 Biomedical instrumentation, ANZSRC::440710 Research, science and technology policy, ANZSRC::441006 Sociological methodology and research methods, ANZSRC::31 Biological sciences, ANZSRC::32 Biomedical and clinical sciences, ANZSRC::42 Health sciences
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We use data from 30 countries and find that the more women in a discipline, the lower quality the research in that discipline is evaluated to be and the lower the funding success rate is. This affects men and women, and is robust to age, number of research outputs, and bibliometric measures where such data are available. Our work builds on others’ findings that women’s work is valued less, regardless of who performs that work.
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© 2024, James et al.
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