Table 1 Gender differences in position and ‘ever authorship’

From: Women are credited less in science than men

Job title

Frequency of job title in the full sample

Likelihood of ever receiving attribution

Total

Women

Men

Total

Women

Men

Faculty

14.85%

11.30%

19.72%

45.70%

41.25%

48.86%

Postdoc

8.63%

6.00%

9.08%

25.17%

22.35%

27.31%

Graduate student

24.15%

17.42%

25.06%

18.69%

14.97%

21.37%

Research staff

35.41%

47.81%

28.73%

8.63%

6.59%

11.01%

Undergraduate

16.96%

17.48%

17.42%

2.61%

2.22%

3.10%

Total/average

100%

100%

100%

16.97%

12.15%

21.17%

  1. This table provides descriptive statistics that show the percentage of employees who worked in university research teams between 2013 and 2016 (left three columns), as well as those who appeared on at least one scientific document published from 2014 to 2016 as an author or inventor (right three columns). The percentages are computed over the 128,859 unique employees in the dataset. The totals include men, women and those whose gender was not imputed. Further details are provided in Extended Data Table 1 and Methods, ‘Construction of administrative data’.
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