Gender disparities in the field of economics

Liu, Junwan; Song, Yinglu; Yang, Shi Qing

doi:10.1007/s11192-020-03627-x

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“…For example, 20.3% female versus 63.4% male authors were found for an economics-related data set analyzed (Maddi & Gingras, 2021) ⑫ . A similar proportion was reported by (Liu et al, 2020): "The proportion of men is 2.45 times higher than that of women". On the contrary, more female authors are found in our data ⑬ .…”

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“…But let's look more deeply into the individual contributions of female and male authors, as it was suggested in (Huang et al, 2020). The conclusion "female and male authors are largely indistinguishable when it comes to the number of publications per year" supported also by results presented by Liu et al, (2020), which is relevant to our data: authors of both genders publish approximately the same number of papers per year on average. To be more precise, 1.28 papers per year on average are published by male authors, and 1.34 by female authors.…”

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“…It is shown that gender disparities are disciplinary-dependent (Nicola & D'Agostino, 2021. The Economics discipline is considered rather as a male-dominated one ⑪ (Bayer & Rouse, 2016;Liu et al, 2020). For example, 20.3% female versus 63.4% male authors were found for an economics-related data set analyzed (Maddi & Gingras, 2021) ⑫ .…”

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Peculiarities of gender disambiguation and ordering of non-English authors’ names for Economic papers beyond core databases^①

Mryglod

Nazarovets

Kozmenko

2023

Journal of Data and Information Science

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Purpose To supplement the quantitative portrait of Ukrainian Economics discipline with the results of gender and author ordering analysis at the level of individual authors, special methods of working with bibliographic data with a predominant share of non-English authors are used. The properties of gender mixing, the likelihood of male and female authors occupying the first position in the authorship list, as well as the arrangements of names are studied. Design/methodology/approach A data set containing bibliographic records related to Ukrainian journal publications in the field of Economics is constructed using Crossref meta-data. Partial semi-automatic disambiguation of authors’ names is performed. First names, along with gender-specific ethnic surnames, are used for gender disambiguation required for further comparative gender analysis. Random reshuffling of data is used to determine the impact of gender correlations. To assess the level of alphabetization for our data set, both Latin and Cyrillic versions of names are taken into account. Findings The lack of well-structured metadata and the poor use of digital identifiers lead to numerous problems with automatization of bibliographic data pre-processing, especially in the case of publications by non-Western authors. The described stages for working with such specific data help to work at the level of authors and analyse, in particular, gender issues. Despite the larger number of female authors, gender equality is more likely to be reported at the individual level for the discipline of Ukrainian Economics. The tendencies towards collaborative or solo-publications and gender mixing patterns are found to be dependent on the journal: the differences for publications indexed in Scopus and/or Web of Science databases are found. It has also been found that Ukrainian Economics research is characterized by rather a non-alphabetical order of authors. Research limitations Only partial authors’ name disambiguation is performed in a semi-automatic way. Gender labels can be derived only for authors declared by full First names or gender-specific Last names. Practical implications The typical features of Ukrainian Economic discipline can be used to perform a comparison with other countries and disciplines, to develop an informed-based assessment procedure at the national level. The proposed way of processing publication data can be borrowed to enrich metadata about other research disciplines, especially for non-English speaking countries. Originality/value To our knowledge, this is the first large-scale quantitative study of Ukrainian Economic discipline. The results obtained are valuable not only at the national level, but also contribute to general knowledge about Economic research, gender issues, and authors’ names ordering. An example of the use of Crossref data is provided, while this data source is still less used due to a number of drawbacks. Here, for the first time, attention is drawn to the explicit use of the features of the Slavic authors’ names.

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Peculiarities of gender disambiguation and ordering of non-English authors’ names for Economic papers beyond core databases^①

Mryglod

Nazarovets

Kozmenko

2023

Journal of Data and Information Science

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“…We might imagine we understand why women authors have become more prevalent over time, and have a sense that changing norms of co-authorship, institutional efforts to hire more women, to create more supportive work environments, and to ensure that women who are hired are well-placed in productive research networks all complement one another to support women economists. However, the profession of economics is not alone in adopting these changes and has been demonstrably less successful than other fields of study (Lundberg and Stearns 2019;Liu, Song & Yang 2020). And why were women authors so successful early in the twentieth century, only to become less so later?…”

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Women and Economics: New Historical Perspectives

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2022

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Women and Economics: New Historical Perspectives

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2022

History of Political Economy

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This essay is the introduction to the 2022 supplemental issue of History of Political Economy, titled Women and Economics: New Historical Perspectives. We first reflect on the historiography of economics and the relative absence of women and gender in the mainstream of the field. Three approaches to the history of women and economics are delineated: making visible women economists, outlining the impact of including women in a broader narrative about economics, and analyzing gender metaphors in economic thought. We then preview and describe the nine contributions included in the volume. In the last section, we consider what is next for this research agenda, arguing that there are two important challenges to historians of economics. The first challenge concerns the consequences of delegating women and gender to a separate history. The second challenge concerns the “silences” of unwritten, undeveloped, and unpreserved work in the history of economics and how the community engaged with the past of economics should reflect on these.

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Gender disparities in the field of economics

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Peculiarities of gender disambiguation and ordering of non-English authors’ names for Economic papers beyond core databases^①

Peculiarities of gender disambiguation and ordering of non-English authors’ names for Economic papers beyond core databases^①

Women and Economics: New Historical Perspectives

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Gender disparities in the field of economics

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Peculiarities of gender disambiguation and ordering of non-English authors’ names for Economic papers beyond core databases①

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Peculiarities of gender disambiguation and ordering of non-English authors’ names for Economic papers beyond core databases^①

Peculiarities of gender disambiguation and ordering of non-English authors’ names for Economic papers beyond core databases^①