Why does gender inequality in academic publishing persist? Lessons and recommendations
| Author | Sara Hagemann |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/14651165221120773 |
| Published date | 01 December 2022 |
| Date | 01 December 2022 |
| Subject Matter | Forum |
Why does gender inequality
in academic publishing
persist? Lessons and
recommendations
Sara Hagemann
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen,
Copenhagen, Denmark
Abstract
Data from leading scholarly journals and publishing houses show that the gender gap in
academic publishing is deep and persistent. This has considerable consequences for indi-
vidual careers and for academic knowledge across disciplines. As European political sci-
ence journals have started to publish their gender data for submissions and publication
processes, this article evaluates this trend and the conclusions from a recent symposium
on ‘The gendered distribution of authors and reviewers in major European political sci-
ence journals’. It summarises a list of ‘key gender data’that journal editors are encour-
aged to publish on an annual basis to achieve a more accurate and comprehensive
picture for individual journals and across the discipline. It also includes suggestions for
editors to ensure better citations of female scholars in their journals.
Keywords
Academia, citations, gender, inequality, publishing
Introduction
The gender gap in academia is deep and persistent. Fewer women than men decide to
pursue an academic career and find it harder to get recognised and promoted within
many academic disciplines (Alter et al., 2020; Huang et al., 2020). Biases are still
found in salaries and funding (e.g. Conger, 2020; Gritzbach, 2019; Larivière et al.,
Corresponding author:
Sara Hagemann, Faculty of Social Science, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farigmagsgade 5, DK-1353
Copenhagen K, Denmark.
Email: s.hagemann@samf.ku.dk
Forum
European Union Politics
2022, Vol. 23(4) 729–740
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