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Mind the gender gap: COVID-19 lockdown effects on gender differences in preprint submissions

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dc.contributor.authorÚcar Marques, Iñaki
dc.contributor.authorTorre Fernández, Margarita
dc.contributor.authorElías Fernández, Antonio
dc.contributor.funderComunidad de Madrides
dc.contributor.funderAgencia Estatal de Investigación (España)
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-29T16:39:02Z
dc.date.available2023-09-29T16:39:02Z
dc.date.issued2022-03-01
dc.description.abstractThe gender gap is a well-known problem in academia and, despite its gradual narrowing, recent estimations indicate that it will persist for decades. Short-term descriptive studies suggest that this gap may have actually worsened during the months of confinement following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. In this work, we evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on female and male academics' research productivity using preprint drop-off data. We examine a total of 307,902 unique research articles deposited in 5 major preprint repositories during the period between January and May each year from 2017 to 2020. We find that the proportion of female authors in online repositories steadily increased over time; however, the trend reversed during the confinement and gender parity worsened in two respects. First, the proportion of male authors in preprints increased significantly during lockdown. Second, the proportion of male authors in COVID-19-related articles was significantly higher than that of women. Overall, our results imply that the gender gap in academia suffered an approximately 1-year setback during the strict lockdown months of 2020, and COVID-related research areas suffered an additional 1.5-year setback.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work has been supported by the Madrid Government (Comunidad de Madrid) under the Multiannual Agreement with UC3M in the line of "Fostering Young Doctors Research" (CONCIERGE-CM-UC3M), and in the context of the V PRICIT (Regional Programme of Research and Technological Innovation. M.T. and I.U. also acknowledge support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the research grant RTI2018-098182-A-I00.en
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationUcar I, Torre M, Elías A (2022) Mind the gender gap: COVID-19 lockdown effects on gender differences in preprint submissions. PLoS ONE, 17(3): e0264265.es
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264265
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.publicationissue3es
dc.identifier.publicationtitlePLoS Onees
dc.identifier.publicationvolume17es
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/38493
dc.identifier.uxxiAR/0000031237
dc.language.isoenges
dc.publisherPublic Library of Sciencees
dc.relation.projectIDGobierno de España. RTI2018-098182-A-I00es
dc.relation.projectIDComunidad de Madrid. CONCIERGE-UC3Mes
dc.rights© 2022 Ucar et al.es
dc.rightsAtribución 3.0 España*
dc.rights.accessRightsopen accesses
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/*
dc.subject.ecienciaEstadísticaes
dc.subject.otherCovid-19es
dc.subject.otherGender gapen
dc.titleMind the gender gap: COVID-19 lockdown effects on gender differences in preprint submissionsen
dc.typeresearch article*
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