#GAReads | Women Submitting Less To Academic Journals Should Scare You

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“Women Submitting Less To Academic Journals Should Scare You“:

…since the onset of coronavirus, editors have noticed a trend: Women academics are submitting fewer papers during coronavirus — with some fields like astrophysics reporting a 50 percent productivity loss among women. This could mean the gender gap in higher education is rearing its ugly head again.

“We don’t want a committee to look at the outlier productivity of, say, a white hetero man with a spouse at home and say, ‘Well, this person managed it,’” Gonzales told the Lily. “We don’t want to make that our benchmark [of deciding tenure or not].”

The obvious reason? Women — disproportionately more than men — are working full-time … and teaching their kids … and balancing domestic responsibilities all at the same time, giving men the time to write, submit and ultimately advance their careers.

Read Ashley Lynn Priore’s full article at Ms. Magazine here…