Will COVID-19 result in a giant step backwards for women in academic science?

COVID-19 has disproportionately placed women in academic science on the frontlines of domestic and clinical care compared to men. As a result, women in science are publishing less and potentially acquiring less funding during COVID-19 than compared to before. This widens the pre-existing gap between...

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Published in:Journal of clinical epidemiology 2021-06, Vol.134, p.160-166
Main Authors: Shamseer, Larissa, Bourgeault, Ivy, Grunfeld, Eva, Moore, Ainsley, Peer, Nazia, Straus, Sharon E., Tricco, Andrea C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic achievement
Academic reward
Adult
Authorship
Bias
Bibliometrics
Biomedical Research - statistics & numerical data
Brief Report
Career advancement
Career Mobility
Careers
Caregivers
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 - epidemiology
Early career
Efficiency
Epidemiology
Female
Funding
Gender
Humans
Intersectionality
Medical research
Mental health
Pandemics
Productivity
Publishing - statistics & numerical data
Reinforcement
SARS-CoV-2
Science
Scientists
Sex Factors
Women
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Summary:COVID-19 has disproportionately placed women in academic science on the frontlines of domestic and clinical care compared to men. As a result, women in science are publishing less and potentially acquiring less funding during COVID-19 than compared to before. This widens the pre-existing gap between men and women in prevailing, publication-based measures of productivity used to determine academic career progression. Early career women and those with intersectional identities associated with greater inequities, are facing unique challenges during this time. We argue that women will fall further behind unless academic reward systems adjust how and what they evaluate. We propose several strategies that academic institutions, funders, journals, and men in academic science can take.
ISSN:0895-4356
1878-5921
DOI:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2021.03.004