How one research group recovered from an all-consuming fire. Plus, giant-sloth jewellery could change our understanding of human history and the oceans are turning greener owing to climate change. How one research group recovered from an all-consuming fire. Plus, giant-sloth jewellery could change our understanding of human history and the oceans are turning greener owing to climate change.
Analysis of which researchers publish, get credit, move around, get funding, collaborate and receive citations shows how deeply ingrained the bias against women is. Analysis of which researchers publish, get credit, move around, get funding, collaborate and receive citations shows how deeply ingrained the bias against women is.
A new book by Cassidy Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière, Equity for Women in Science:
Dismantling Systemic Barriers to Advancement, is aptly timed given concerns about
the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic damaged women s productivity, visibility,
and recognition within the research–publishing ecosystem. Equality within systems
of knowledge production is not only right, as this book shows, denying such equality
is also harmful.
An analysis of nearly 5.5 million scientific papers has found that, on current trends, the proportion of women authoring research won't reach parity with men in some fields for over 100 years