Female-dominated disciplines have lower evaluated research quality and funding success rates, for men and women
Publication type
journal article
Publication date
2024
Author(s)
James, Alex
Buelow, Franca
Gibson, Liam
Brower, Ann
Language
English
View point(s)
Global
Abstract
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.
Journal
eLife
ISSN
2050-084X
Volume
13
Pagination
RP97613