在物理学领域的合作和职业发展方面存在性别差异
Mingrong She1, Jan Bachmann2,3,4, Fariba Karimi2,3
1Department of Data Analytics and Digitalisation, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Royal Society open science
|August 7, 2025
概括
物理学合作网络中的性别表明,女性面临着障碍. 在合作的同时,合作.
科学领域:
- 物理 物理学 物理
- 科学社会学科学社会学
- 图书统计学 图书统计学
背景情况:
- 了解学术职业发展中的性别差异对于促进科学中的公平至关重要.
- 合作网络在学业成功中发挥着重要作用,但它们的影响可能因性别而异.
研究的目的:
- 研究物理学中的合作模式中的性别差异.
- 在物理学中分析协作行为,网络结构和学术职业发展 (主要研究员地位,职业生涯长度) 之间的关系.
- 为了确定合作对职业发展的影响是否在男性和女性物理学家之间有所不同.
主要方法:
- 使用物理出版物中的文献计量数据分析协作网络.
- 应用后勤回归和加速失效时间模型来评估职业发展.
- 对协作指标的量化,例如独特的合作者,共同作者和网络密度.
主要成果:
- 协作行为与职业发展之间的关联在控制出版物数量时,对于男性和女性来说是相似的.
- 获得首席研究员 (PI) 地位与拥有更多独特合作者的出版有关.
- 经常与相同的相互连接的小组合作或每篇论文有很多共同作者与较短的职业生涯和未能达到PI地位相关.
- 与男性相比,女性物理学家往往在更大,更紧密的团队中合作.
- 与男性相比,女性不太可能成为PI,职业生存概率也较低.
结论:
- 虽然合作对职业发展的影响在独特的合作者方面是性别中立的,但女性在获得物理学高级学术职位方面面临系统性的不利因素.
- 合作网络结构因性别而异,女性倾向于更大,更密集的群体,这可能会影响她们的职业发展轨迹.
- 需要制定政策来解决观察到的首席研究员成就和物理学职业生涯长寿的性别差距.
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