Dear workshop community,
We will convene for the Applied Statistics Workshop (Gov 3009) next week on
Wednesday (9/12).
The speaker is* Junming Huang * (Princeton postdoc) who will be presenting
his paper "Quantifying Gender Inequality in Scientific Careers" (no paper
link).
*Where:* CGIS Knafel Building, Room K354 (see this link
<https://map.harvard.edu/?bld=04471&level=9> for directions).
*When: *Wednesday, September 12th at 12 noon - 1:30 pm.
*Abstract: *Gender inequality in academic careers, documented across all
disciplines and countries, extends beyond the fraction of women involved in
research: compared to their male colleagues, women publish less over the
course of their careers and their work acquires fewer citations. Yet, all
existing evidence is limited to selected countries or disciplines,
restricting our ability assess the roots and implications of the gender
disparity. Here we analyzed a large corpus of scientific publications since
1900, identifying the gender and reconstructing the full publishing career
of over 1.5 million authors from most scientific disciplines and countries,
allowing us to quantify the processes and outcomes for women and men in
science. We confirm that men have higher total productivity and total
impact than women, a pattern impacting all disciplines and most countries.
Surprisingly, we find no systematic difference between the annual
productivity of male and female scientists, not only offering a
gender-invariant productivity measure, but also suggesting that the
observed gender gaps are rooted in gender dependent dropout rates. We find
that not only do women leave academia at a higher rate than men, but
surprisingly, this gap in dropout rate is greater for the more productive
women. We show that when we control for these two gender-specific dropout
rates, the career gender gaps in both productivity and impact vanish.
Identifying the driving forces of gender gaps can help rephrase the
conversation about gender inequality around the sustainability of women’s
careers in academia, with important consequences for policy makers and
academic institutions.
*All are welcome! Lunch is provided! *
Best,
Connor Jerzak
Applied Statistics Workshop -- Graduate Student Coordinator
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