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Are women publishing less during the pandemic? Here’s what the data say

Early analyses suggest that female academics are posting fewer preprints and starting fewer research projects than their male peers.
  1. Giuliana Viglione
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Quarantined with a six-year-old child underfoot, Megan Frederickson wondered how academics were managing to write papers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lockdowns implemented to stem coronavirus spread meant that, overnight, many households worldwide had become an intersection of work, school and home life. Conversations on Twitter seemed to confirm Frederickson’s suspicions about the consequences: female academics, taking up increased childcare responsibilities, were falling behind their male peers at work.

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Nature 581, 365-366 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01294-9

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  1. Andersen, J. P., Nielsen, M. W., Simone, N. L., Lewiss, R. E. & Jagsi, R. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06303 (2020).

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