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The aim of this paper is twofold:1)contribute to a better understanding of the place of women in Economics and Management disciplines by characterizing the difference in levels of scientific collaboration between men and women at the…

General Economics · Economics 2020-12-01 Abdelghani Maddi , Yves Gingras

The historical and contemporary under-attribution of women's contributions to scientific scholarship is well-known and well-studied, with effects that are felt today in myriad ways by women scientists. One measure of this under-attribution…

Current attempts to address the shortfall of female researchers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) have not yet succeeded despite other academic subjects having female majorities. This article investigates the extent…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Mike Thelwall , Amalia Mas-Bleda

We survey the treatment of sex and gender in the Computer Graphics research literature from an algorithmic fairness perspective. The established practices on the use of gender and sex in our community are scientifically incorrect and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Ana Dodik , Silvia Sellán , Theodore Kim , Amanda Phillips

This paper examines the historical dimension of gender bias in the US computing workforce. It offers new quantitative data on the computing workforce prior to the availability of US Census data in the 1970s. Computer user groups (including…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Thomas J. Misa

Conference publications in computer science (CS) have attracted scholarly attention due to their unique status as a main research outlet unlike other science fields where journals are dominantly used for communicating research findings. One…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Jinseok Kim

While several previous studies have analyzed gender bias in research, we are still missing a comprehensive analysis of gender differences in the AI community, covering diverse topics and different development trends. Using the AI Scholar…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Yiwen Ding , Jiarui Liu , Zhiheng Lyu , Kun Zhang , Bernhard Schoelkopf , Zhijing Jin , Rada Mihalcea

Gender is a hot topic in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). Work has run the gamut, from assessing how we embed gender in our computational creations to correcting systemic sexism, online and off. While gender is often framed…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Katie Seaborn

The debate on the role of women in the academic world has focused on various phenomena that could be at the root of the gender gap seen in many nations. However, in spite of the ever more collaborative character of scientific research, the…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Giovanni Abramo , Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo , Gianluca Murgia

This paper presents a review of 107 research papers relating to speech and sex or gender in ISCA Interspeech publications between 2013 and 2023. We note the scarcity of work on this topic and find that terminology, particularly the word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Ariadna Sanchez , Alice Ross , Nina Markl

Diversity with respect to ethnicity and gender has been studied in open-source and industrial settings for software development. Publication avenues such as academic conferences and journals contribute to the growing technology industry.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Aditya Shankar Narayanan , Dheeraj Vagavolu , Nancy A Day , Meiyappan Nagappan

Women and people of color remain dramatically underrepresented among computing faculty, and improvements in demographic diversity are slow and uneven. Effective diversification strategies depend on quantifying the correlates, causes, and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Nicholas LaBerge , K. Hunter Wapman , Allison C. Morgan , Sam Zhang , Daniel B. Larremore , Aaron Clauset

Academic publishing is the principal medium of documenting and disseminating scientific discoveries. At the heart of its daily operations are the editorial boards. Despite their activities and recruitment often being opaque to outside…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Fengyuan Liu , Petter Holme , Matteo Chiesa , Bedoor AlShebli , Talal Rahwan

Context. Women remain significantly underrepresented in software engineering, leading to a lasting gender gap in the software industry. This disparity starts in education and extends into the industry, causing challenges such as hostile…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Tatalina Oliveira , Ann Barcomb , Ronnie de Souza Santos , Helda Barros , Maria Teresa Baldassarre , César França

In recent years, there has been considerable effort to promote gender balance in the academic environment of Computer Science (CS). However, there is still a gender gap at all CS academic levels: from students, to PhD candidates, to faculty…

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The field of software engineering is embedded in both engineering and computer science, and may embody gender biases endemic to both. This paper surveys software engineering's origins and its long-running attention to engineering…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Thomas J. Misa

Gender bias in computing is a hard problem that has resisted decades of research. One obstacle has been the absence of systematic data that might indicate when gender bias emerged in computing and how it has changed. This article presents a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Thomas J Misa

In this study, the global scientific workforce is explored through large-scale, generational, cross-sectional, and longitudinal approaches. We examine 4.3 million nonoccasional scientists from 38 OECD countries publishing in 1990-2021. Our…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Marek Kwiek , Lukasz Szymula

Gender disparities in academia manifest and persist in various aspects of the scientific enterprise, yet their influence on the interplay between research productivity and journal prestige remains underexplored. Here we analyze the academic…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-01 Vitor H. Ribeiro , Andre S. Sunahara , Golnaz Shahtahmassebi , Matjaz Perc , Haroldo V. Ribeiro

This study investigates whether the virtualization of academic conferences in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic changed the gender structure of conference participants. We explored this question utilizing authorship data from the Web of…

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