The glass ceiling is not fragile: A response to Odum (2000)

McSweeney, Frances K.; Swindell, Samantha

doi:10.1007/bf03392021

“…Previous research in the field of ABA showed that female academic authors were published a fraction as often as male authors (McSweeney et al, 2000 ). This discrepancy has been shown repeatedly in the literature, the makeup of ABA companies, and in higher education teaching (McSweeney and Swindell, 2001 ; Myung et al, 2011 ; Pyke, 2014 ; Winchester and Browning, 2015 ; Helmer et al, 2017 ). The current study was created to determine if the discrepancies in article publications have continued in recent years compared to the original McSweeney et al ( 2000 ) study.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

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The Impact of Academic Publication: Inequity for Women in Behavior Analytic Journals

Krebsbach

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2022

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The number of women in higher education has increased over the past few decades but are still not at an equal level to their male counterparts, especially at the tenured level. One area of note within the tenure process is research. This area is highly valued by certain universities and could shed light on discrepancies in the number of female faculty as the faculty position becomes more prestigious. The author downloaded 21 years of publication data for seven prestigious behavior analytic journals and used quantitative methods to determine if the rates of publication differed between a previous study and today. There were 8,778 final articles yielding 27,225 authors in total. Data showed that women are represented more frequently overall, across time and all journals, less frequently in prestigious authorship positions, and more often when the sex of the editor at the time of publication was also female. While women's participation has increased over time, and since the original study, there is still disproportionate representation compared to the entirety of the field, in the order of authorship positions, and for editor-in-chief positions.

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“…Previous research in the field of ABA showed that female academic authors were published a fraction as often as male authors (McSweeney et al, 2000). This discrepancy has been shown repeatedly in the literature, the makeup of ABA companies, and in higher education teaching (McSweeney and Swindell, 2001;Myung et al, 2011;Pyke, 2014;Winchester and Browning, 2015;Helmer et al, 2017). The current study was created to determine if the discrepancies in article publications have continued in recent years compared to the original McSweeney et al (2000) study.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 85%

The impact of academic publication: Publication patterns of women in behavior analytic journals.

Krebsbach¹

2022

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The number of women in higher education has increased over the past few decades but are still not at an equal level to their male counterparts, especially at the tenured level. One area of note within the tenure process is research. This area is highly valued by certain universities and could shed light on discrepancies in the number of female faculty as the faculty position becomes more prestigious. The author downloaded 21 years of publication data for seven prestigious behavior analytic journals and used quantitative methods to determine if the rates of publication differed between a previous study and today. There were 8,778 final articles yielding 27,225 authors in total. Data showed that women are represented more frequently overall, across time and all journals, less frequently in prestigious authorship positions, and more often when the sex of the editor at the time of publication was also female. While women's participation has increased over time, and since the original study, there is still disproportionate representation compared to the entirety of the field, in the order of authorship positions, and for editor-in-chief positions.

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“…For example, Odum reported a standard deviation for the percentage of women serving as associate editors of JEAB that was approximately equal in size to the mean. (See McSweeney & Swindell, 2001, for further discussion of this issue.) As will be reported, the present statistics (entire editorial staff) differed little from previous statistics (editorial board only).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Participation by women in developmental, social, cognitive, and general psychology: A context for interpreting trends in behavior analysis

McSweeney

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Parks

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2002

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We examined participation by women in journals devoted to social, developmental, cognitive, and general psychology. Authorship and first authorship by women increased from 1978 to 1997 for most journals. Participation by women on the editorial staff did not keep pace with their increased authorship for social and developmental psychology. Based on these trends, women's participation decreased with increases in the selectivity of the position for social and developmental psychology (a glass ceiling). The development of a glass ceiling suggests that the contributions of men and women are not always treated equally (gender inequity). Because a similar glass ceiling was reported for journals in behavior analysis (McSweeney, Donahoe, & Swindell, 2000; McSweeney & Swindell, 1998), the causes of this inequity appear to be relatively widespread. The failure to find a glass ceiling for general and cognitive psychology suggests that the inequity might be reduced by subtle pressure for diversity in editorial positions and by adopting actions that encourage women to pursue research positions.

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The glass ceiling is not fragile: A response to Odum (2000)

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The Impact of Academic Publication: Inequity for Women in Behavior Analytic Journals

The Impact of Academic Publication: Inequity for Women in Behavior Analytic Journals

The impact of academic publication: Publication patterns of women in behavior analytic journals.

Participation by women in developmental, social, cognitive, and general psychology: A context for interpreting trends in behavior analysis

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