Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, United States.
Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, United States.
ACS Chem Biol. 2021 Nov 19;16(11):2042-2046. doi: 10.1021/acschembio.1c00142. Epub 2021 Sep 15.
Despite decades of progress toward a more equitable society, gender representation in the sciences continues to be heavily skewed toward men. We were interested in gender representation in chemistry through the lens of scientific publishing. Publications are a central academic currency and are critical for funding, recruiting, and promotion in academia. Here we report the results of an analysis that compared the percentage of female first and last authors across 10 chemistry, 3 chemical biology, and 3 general journals from 2005 to 2020. We show that women are substantially underrepresented in chemistry authorship even when compared with their relative populations in academia and are not predicted to achieve parity within the next 50 years at the current rate in any journal. Our findings highlight the need for changes to the publishing process to achieve a more equitable publishing environment.
尽管朝着更加公平的社会迈进了几十年，但科学界的性别代表性仍然严重偏向男性。我们通过科学出版的视角关注化学领域的性别代表性。出版物是学术领域的核心货币，对于资金、招聘和晋升至关重要。在这里，我们报告了一项分析的结果，该分析比较了 2005 年至 2020 年 10 种化学期刊、3 种化学生物学期刊和 3 种综合期刊中女性第一和最后作者的百分比。我们发现，即使与学术界的相对人口相比，女性在化学领域的作者中也严重代表性不足，并且按照目前任何期刊的速度，在未来 50 年内都不太可能实现任何期刊的平等。我们的研究结果突出表明，需要对出版过程进行变革，以实现更加公平的出版环境。
