Pandemic lockdown holding back female academics, data show

Feminism inspired shoddy journalism written by a male journalist! It follows blindly the playbook of feminist narrative!



"The latest data were compiled by Digital Science, a London-based company specialising in research analysis tools, using its Dimensions publication database to analyse more than 60,000 journals across all disciplines for Times Higher Education.

The analysis shows that the proportion of accepted papers with a female first author dipped below the historical trend for submissions made in March, April and May.



The decline in the share of papers by female first authors was particularly pronounced in April, when it fell by more than two percentage points to 31.2 per cent, and May, which saw a collapse of seven points to 26.8 per cent."

Perhaps, the female 2nd author numbers increased during that period! Perhaps, there were this time more female last or second last authors than normal (everybody, but this journalist knows that those authors at the back are often the most important ones)! And so on ...



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