Fig. 1: Women are less likely to be named authors on any given document in all fields and at all career stages. | Nature

Fig. 1: Women are less likely to be named authors on any given document in all fields and at all career stages.

From: Women are credited less in science than men

Fig. 1: Women are less likely to be named authors on any given document in all fields and at all career stages.

Graphs plot the probability that a potential author on a scientific document (article or patent) is a woman against the probability that an actual author is a woman. A potential author is defined as an employee in a laboratory between 2013 and 2016 from which an article or patent was published between 2014 and 2016. There are 17,929,271 potential article authorships and 3,203,831 potential patent inventorships in our sample. The markers in each panel are sized by the total number of actual authorships in the category. The diagonal represents parity in the gender composition of potential and actual authorships. Individual data on potential and actual authorships are shown in Supplementary Fig.  5. Left, disparity across job titles. Right, disparity across research fields. Observations are weighted by the inverse of the number of teams per employee times the inverse of the number of potential articles or patents per employee.

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