The "Report" shows that the gender gap in China's scientific research field has gradually improved, and female researchers have made progress in terms of scientific research participation and academic influence; in various disciplines, the gender gap of Chinese researchers is gradually weakening, especially The life sciences and medicine fields have the closest male-to-female ratios.
On the evening of November 3, at the "She" Forum of the 5th World Top Scientists Forum, the first research report interpreting China's scientific research ecology from a gender perspective - "Portraits of Chinese Researchers from a Gender Perspective" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report"). ")release.
The "Report" analyzes the scientific research output of more than 160,000 Chinese researchers from 2005 to 2019 from the perspective of gender. Combined with the paper data in Elsevier's Scopus database, it analyzes academic impact, field characteristics, research roles, research cooperation, The current situation of Chinese female scientists is comprehensively and accurately analyzed from multiple dimensions, including the application for science fund.
The "Report" shows that the gender gap in China's scientific research field has gradually improved, and female researchers have made progress in terms of scientific research participation and academic influence; in various disciplines, the gender gap of Chinese researchers is gradually weakening, especially in life Science and medicine have the closest male-to-female ratios.
The "Report" shows that from the perspective of changes in the proportion of male and female scientific researchers, the proportion of female scientific researchers in China has increased from 13% in 2005 to 27.7% in 2019, an increase of 14.7 percentage points. There are more and more women. Researchers participate in scientific research activities. On the issue of "workplace ceiling" for female researchers, from 2008 to 2017, the ratio of males to females with senior professional titles dropped from 5.47 to 3.92, and mid-level titles dropped from 1.94 to 1.57, indicating that the disadvantaged position of Chinese female researchers in rank promotion is gradually increasing. improvement, and the competitiveness of the workplace has been continuously strengthened.
Especially in the fields of life sciences and medicine, taking the academic output from 2015 to 2019 as an example, the impact index score of male papers was 1.22, and that of women was 1.13 in the same period. The difference is small, reflecting that women's scientific research achievements are roughly the same as men's, revealing that "her power" plays an indispensable role in scientific research. Specific to different disciplines, women outperformed other fields in life sciences and medicine, especially in neuroscience and pharmacology. In physical science, computer science, engineering and other fields, women's academic influence is still lower than that of men.
According to the "Report", female researchers generally have more collaborators than males, and the size of female-led scientific research teams is also larger than that of males. Male researchers are more active in international collaborations. Whether it was 2005-2009 or 2015-2019, male researchers had higher rates of international collaboration than female researchers. However, judging from the development trend, the enthusiasm of both men and women to carry out international cooperation is on the rise.
Yu Licheng, Secretary General of the Shanghai Center of the Association of World's Leading Scientists, said, "As the world's premiere platform for the report, we not only hope to share these insights with you, but also advocate the construction of an inclusive and diverse innovation ecosystem and strengthen the gender balance of the scientific research community. and diversity, and encourage more female researchers to play a greater role in scientific research, technology development, science dissemination and application."
The Scientific Research Evaluation Laboratory, jointly established by the Documentation and Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the information analysis company Elsevier, jointly released the "Report".
