An analysis of about 5.5 million scientific papers shows that current trends indicate that the proportion of women authoring research will not reach parity with men in some fields for more than 100 years.
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January 11, 2023
Women are underrepresented in physics Tapanakorn Katvon/EyeEm/Alamy
Major analyzes show that while the number of women writing scientific papers is increasing, overall they are still male-dominated, and some fields will not reach gender parity until the next century.
Cassidy Sugimoto of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and Vincent Larivière of the University of Montreal in Canada used machine learning algorithms to analyze nearly 5.5 million scientific papers published between 2008 and 2020 to I presumed the possibility that the name was male. Or female.
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