Women in science get less credit on papers and patents
Women in science get less credit on papers and patents
Women in science are less likely than their male counterparts to receive authorship credit for their work, a study shows.
Researchers used a large set of administrative data from universities that revealed exactly who was involved with and paid on various research projects.
They linked the data to authorship information on patents and articles published in scientific journals to see which people who worked on individual projects received credit in the patents and journals and who did not.
The results, published in the journal Nature, show that women who worked on a research project were 13% less likely to be named as authors in related scientific articles compared to their male
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