The Pandemic and Gender Inequality in Academia

Kim, Eunji; Patterson, S. Howard

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3666587

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“…BIPOC faculty are majorly under-represented in tenure-stream positions [31,38]. In addition, academic mothers are particularly prone to facing setbacks in promotion and/or tenure [41]. We echo Fulweiler and colleagues [31], who recommend several measures that can help alleviate the impacts of the pandemic and move towards mitigating long-term impacts at universities, including: (1) flexible timelines for promotion; (2) removing expiration dates on start-up funds; (3) requiring COVID-disruption statements that allow for individualized merit, tenure, and promotion guidelines; and (4) providing flexible funds to support the productivity of academic mothers, particularly BIPOC mothers.…”

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Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women and Early Career Archaeologists

Hoggarth

Batty²,

Bondura

et al. 2021

Heritage

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching impacts in all segments of life worldwide. While a variety of surveys have assessed the impacts of the pandemic in other fields, few studies have focused on understanding the short- and long-term impacts of the pandemic for archaeology. To assess these trends, we asked survey respondents (n = 570) if they experienced job loss and to rate the percentage of change in their economic situation, workload, teaching or research activities, and personal responsibilities. Results show alarming trends, with nearly half of those who experienced job loss being under the age of 35 and women and early career archaeologists suffering major economic losses. Impacts to workload, teaching activities, and research activities were also felt across these groups. Substantial increases in personal responsibilities (childcare, eldercare, caring for sick family members) were also identified, especially for women with children under 18 years of age. While structural inequalities have already been identified across different sectors of archaeology, the results of this survey suggest the most vulnerable populations are those most heavily affected. We recommend a variety of strategies for employers, professional organizations, funding agencies, and publishers to consider in mitigating the consequences of COVID-19, especially for women and early career scholars.

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Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women and Early Career Archaeologists

Hoggarth

Batty²,

Bondura

et al. 2021

Heritage

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“…RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY AMONG WOMEN DURING COVID-19 8 A few studies have adopted other methods to examine the research productivity of scholars during this crisis: Kim and Patterson (2020) analyzed 1.8 million tweets by approximately 3000 political scientists. They found that the gap in publishing work-related tweets between women and men academics had tripled since the beginning of the pandemic.…”

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Why Research Productivity Among Women in Academia Suffered During the Early Stages of COVID-19 Crisis: A Qualitative Analysis

Lambrechts¹,

Larasatie²,

Boutelier³

et al. 2021

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The discourse on research productivity during the early months of the COVID-19 crisis has been dominated by quantitative examinations of manuscripts published since the outbreak of the pandemic. Existing findings highlight that women scholars were publishing less and less than men, but few considered the reasons behind this phenomenon. This paper offers new empirical insights into the experiences and perceptions of women scholars during the early stages of the pandemic, helping us understand why they have been seemingly less productive during this time.We coded qualitative questionnaire responses from 101 women scholars from across the world, using an inductive thematic network approach, adopting a feminist lens to examine women’s experiences (and social roles in and outside of academia). Our findings illustrate the centrality of support with respect to childcare, professional-emotional support from peers and mentors lost due to stay-at-home orders. Restricted access to institutional facilities, resources, subsequent loss of structure, additional time required to prepare for online teaching, and increased service load have negatively impacted research productivity. For many women, these factors are compounded by poor mental health with high cognitive and emotional tolls, resulting in depleted resources for the highly intellectually demanding research and writing activities. Conversely, some women scholars, particularly those without care responsibilities, reported reduced commutes, fewer meetings, and flexible working hours, resulting in unchanged or increased research productivity. As the impact of the pandemic is ongoing, it is critical to assess the underlying causes of reduced productivity of women scholars to mitigate these effects.

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“…As the virus spread, it exposed existing structural and gender inequalities and further deepened others; academia is no exception. Whereas ample evidence exists on the pre-pandemic gender gap in academia (Barnes and Beaulieu 2017;Chávez and Mitchell 2020;Dion, Sumner, and Mitchell 2018;Dolan and Lawless 2020;Hesli, Lee, and Mitchell 2012;Mitchell and Hesli 2013;Teele and Thelen 2017), we continue to learn more on post-pandemic gender disparities from journal submissions data (Wiegard et al 2020), funded grant proposals, and published research (Flaherty 2020;Kim and Patterson 2020;Kramer 2020). The abrupt shift in instruction modes, advising and mentoring, collaborative work, fieldwork plans, and research dissemination following the mandated lockdowns substantively impacted scholars' productivity, especially women with young children (Breuning et al 2021).…”

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“…Early evidence from journal submissions data, social media discussions (Kim and Patterson 2020), and accounts of women's lived experiences (Fazackerley 2020;Lyttelton, Zang, and Musick 2020) suggests both short-and long-term ramifications of the ongoing health crisis. Undoubtedly, the effects of the pandemic will be dissimilar across subfields, research methods, and disciplines.…”

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Leveling the Field: Gender Inequity in Academia During COVID-19

Shalaby

Allam

Buttorff

2021

APSC

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This article explores the differential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the productivity of male and female academics and whether the ongoing health crisis will exacerbate further the existing gender gap in academia in both the short and long terms. We present early evidence of the pandemic’s disproportionate effect on women’s research productivity using online survey data supplemented by interview data with regional and international female political scientists. The interviews and survey findings reveal gender disparities in perceived research productivity and service workloads during the pandemic. The results also shed initial light on the pandemic’s impact on the research productivity of academics who are parents, especially among women.

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The Pandemic and Gender Inequality in Academia

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Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women and Early Career Archaeologists

Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women and Early Career Archaeologists

Why Research Productivity Among Women in Academia Suffered During the Early Stages of COVID-19 Crisis: A Qualitative Analysis

Leveling the Field: Gender Inequity in Academia During COVID-19

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