Department of Education, Faculty of Education Sciences, University of Almería, Spain; SPORT Research Group (CTS-1024), CERNEP Research Center, University of Almería, Spain.
PROFITH "PROmoting FITness and Health through physical activity" research group, Sport and Health University Research Institute (iMUDS), Department of Physical Education and Sports, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Granada, Spain.
J Sci Med Sport. 2021 Nov;24(11):1093-1097. doi: 10.1016/j.jsams.2021.04.010. Epub 2021 Apr 28.
We determined the representation of women in sport sciences research leadership by assessing the proportion of women in (i) leading authorship positions of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published from January 2000 to September 2020 in sport sciences journals and (ii) editorial boards of these journals as of September 2020.
Review.
We searched PubMed for RCTs published from January 1, 2000, to September 1, 2020, in a representative sample of the top sport sciences journals and identified the sex of first and senior authors through photographs, sex pronouns, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, institutional, or other profiles. This strategy was also used to identify the sex of the editorial board members from the selected journals.
A total of 4841 articles published in 14 journals, and 1418 editors, were analyzed. The average proportions of female first and senior authorship were 24.8% and 16.8%, respectively. The percentage of female first authorship increased by ~0.5% annually (β = 0.702; B = 0.46, 95% CI = 0.24 to 0.68, p < 0.001) from 2000 to 2020, while the percentage of female senior authorship did not change over time (β = 0.274; B = 0.15, 95% CI = -0.102 to 0.398, p = 0.230). Among the editorial boards' positions, 19.7% were occupied by women. None of the editors-in-chief of the selected journals were women.
Women are markedly underrepresented in leading authorship and editorial board positions in sport sciences, despite a ~0.5% annual increase in female first authorship in the past two decades. The mechanisms underlying these findings and the actions needed to reduce potential gender inequalities warrant further research.
通过评估女性在（i） 2000 年 1 月至 2020 年 9 月期间发表于运动科学期刊的随机对照试验（RCT）的主要作者职位中的比例，以及（ii）截至 2020 年 9 月这些期刊的编辑委员会中的比例，来确定女性在运动科学研究领导层中的代表性。
综述。
我们在顶级运动科学期刊的代表性样本中，从 2000 年 1 月 1 日至 2020 年 9 月 1 日，搜索了发表的 RCT，并通过照片、性别代词、谷歌学者、研究门、机构或其他资料，确定第一作者和资深作者的性别。我们还使用这种策略，从选定的期刊中确定编辑委员会成员的性别。
共分析了 14 种期刊中的 4841 篇文章和 1418 名编辑。女性第一作者和资深作者的平均比例分别为 24.8%和 16.8%。女性第一作者的比例每年增加约 0.5%（β=0.702；B=0.46，95%CI=0.24 至 0.68，p<0.001），从 2000 年到 2020 年，而女性资深作者的比例没有随时间变化（β=0.274；B=0.15，95%CI=-0.102 至 0.398，p=0.230）。在编辑委员会的职位中，有 19.7%由女性担任。在所选择的期刊中，没有一位主编是女性。
尽管在过去的二十年中，女性在第一作者中的比例每年增加约 0.5%，但女性在运动科学领域的主要作者和编辑委员会职位中明显代表性不足。这些发现背后的机制以及减少潜在性别不平等所需的行动值得进一步研究。
