Equality
Title : A Gender Equality Paradox in Academic Publishing: Countries With a Higher Proportion of Female First-Authored Journal Articles Have Larger First Author Gender Disparities Between Fields Authors Mike Thelwall University of Wolverhampton Amalia Mas-Bleda University of Wolverhampton source : click here 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 to which gender disparities are subject-wide or nation-specific by a first author gender comparison of 30 million articles from all 27 Scopus broad fields within the 31 countries with the most Scopusindexed articles 2014-18. The results show overall and geocultural patterns as well as individual national differences. Almost half of the subjects were always more male (7; e.g., Mathematics) or always more female (6; e.g., Immunology & Mi