A new study of gender-based 19th-century printing styles contradicts previous studies on the subject, suggesting that women did not publish less than they did before the epidemic.
What the study calls gender inequality has grown in some areas during this time of carelessness and isolation, but especially in psychology, math and philosophy.
“Our results do not give a complete picture,” says the study published in Journal of Information Science. However, the results clearly show that COVID-19 discrimination is not clear in gender publications.[;] The drawing is complex and requires further study.
Seeking further evidence that women’s research productivity has been affected by CVD-19, researchers in the new study estimated 266,409 articles published in 2019, 2020, and January 2021 in 21 subjects in 2,813 journals, taking into account the gender of the authors. Their first names. All articles from Spring-Nature Database.
The idea was to compare sex prints every three years, looking for differences between before and after the epidemic in mid-2019. A.D. Contrary to many other studies and data sets that show that women have fallen behind men in terms of print since the beginning of 2020, this study did not differ significantly between the three years.
That is above all else. However, there were significant differences in some subjects. The biggest decline among female writers in psychology (74.4 percent in 2019 and January 2021 and 2020 and January 2021, fell by 12.3 percent). The second biggest decline was in mathematics (12.9 percent and 17.5 percent, respectively), followed by philosophy (11.3 percent and 10.3 percent, respectively).
According to the authors, philosophy and math are “interesting” as they are clearly influenced by Covid-19. Again, much evidence suggests that the research delays associated with Covid-19 are not only external barriers but also due to lack of time to write after teaching, service and care (if applicable).
A.D. By 2021, the largest male and female author ratios will increase by geography (42.6 per cent increase in 2019 and 32 per cent increase by 2020), dentistry (27.7 per cent and 19.8 per cent respectively) and energy (25 per cent and 7 per cent respectively).
“The effects of dentistry, in particular, are a lesson in rapid pace of change in general medicine,” the study said in a statement.
In Mathematics and Psychology, the new study found that during Covd-19 there was a decrease in the number of articles by women authors and the number of men’s original authors as collaborators with women.
“These dropouts are more prevalent in these areas than in any other culture,” the study said.
Another significant breakthrough was the fact that in the field of education where the role of female writers was higher, only one article was written.
First, the study suggests that gender may influence the ratio of women and men to co-authors. In many authors’ articles, women, as the first authors, saw a greater gender balance between the authors.
“There are a lot of disagreements about gender discrimination in the academy,” said Darius Jemielnik, professor of organizational and administrative studies at Kozminsky University in Poland and associate professor at the Faculty of Internet and Community Center at the University of Harvard. And while it ‘s sure’ that ‘there is no such thing as’ discrimination’, it is the opposite of relying on the erroneous notion of how it works. We have to make policies based on information, and it is important to keep track of these information rather than assuming that the information is sufficient.
One of the practical implications of the policy is to “be very careful with the changes in the review process. My feeling – not based on research – may have been significant bias but it was minor. For example, I would not be surprised if the mothers of young children are found to be balanced, even with the fathers of small children, even though they are less affected.
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According to Jimelnnik, this information should continue to be collected, as it may be relatively slow in academic publications. The researchers took an average return period of three to six months from paper to print, which clearly falls within the scope of the study. However, Jemielnick said: By 2023, it will be possible for accurate printing to be completely delayed and viewed, ”he said. Moreover, he said the study could not often refer to rejected papers and ultimately delayed the date of publication.
Kathleen Dolan, Professor of Political Science and Editor-in-Chief at Milwaukee University of Wisconsin American Journal of Political ScienceFound early in the epidemic – is part of a broader perspective on gender patterns. AJPS-Women used to print a little more than usual but they were also printing a few pieces of paper that was written alone.
Dolan said she did not support the notion that women were more vulnerable than men during Covenant-19 this week, but that the new study was not “in the right direction.”
A.D. Considering magazine articles in 2019, 2020, and January 2021, she said: “There is not enough time to see the exact design of Covidy.” “In many disciplines, an article published on Time X and finally received for publication may not be published for up to two years.” In political science, for example, she continues to be considered “fast” for a whole year from submission to publication.
If Covide-19 is really hurting women scholars in terms of lost research time, “We should not expect to see the impact of earlier magazines published in 2022, but it could be in 2023 and 2024.
In that sense, it is possible that Dolan’s article “would be a great starting point” for later comparisons.
As a result, other studies conducted within academies on GV-19 gender outcomes have included entries to pre-print repositories that scholars will participate in long before they are regularly published. Cassidi Sugimto, dean of the Tom and Marie Patton School of the School of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology, co-authored a pre-publication study in May 2020 and said of the Jamilnik paper: We are still in a pandemic, and long printing delays distort the reality of what is currently happening in the laboratory.