Again, Nature journal publishes ideologically motivated junk science! They want you to believe there are about as many female as male scientists, which is total baloney!
The premise is already junk! The abstract of this paper is laughable!
For example, according to the American Physical Society the membership of women across 17 disciplines ranges between 11.7% and 25.9% (Source). Obviously, there are many more male than female active physicists. You can bet the picture is not much different in many other sciences. That is the real gap! (I had to actually search quite hard to find these numbers from the APS, because in their regular membership statistics they do not bother to distinguish between gender).
From the abstract:
"There is a well-documented gap in the observed number of scientific works produced by women and men in science, with clear consequences for the retention and promotion of women in science. The gap might be a result of productivity differences, or it might be due to women’s contributions not being acknowledged. This paper finds that at least part of this gap is due to the latter: women in research teams are significantly less likely to be credited with authorship than are men. The findings are consistent across three very different sources of data. Analysis of the first source - large scale administrative data on research teams, team scientific output, and attribution of credit - show that women are significantly less likely to be named on any given article or patent produced by their team relative to their peers. The gender gap in attribution is found across almost all scientific fields and career stages. The second source – an extensive survey of authors – similarly shows that women’s scientific contributions are systematically less likely to be recognized. The third source – qualitative responses – suggests that the reason is that their work is often not known, not appreciated, or ignored. At least some of the observed gender gap in scientific output may not be due to differences in scientific contribution, but to differences in attribution."
Women are Credited Less in Science than are Men (no public access)
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