title: On the Compliance of Women Engineers with a Gendered Scientific System.
abstract: There has been considerable effort in the last decade to increase the participation of women in engineering through various policies. However, there has been little empirical research on gender disparities in engineering which help underpin the effective preparation, co-ordination, and implementation of the science and technology (S&T) policies. This article aims to present a comprehensive gendered analysis of engineering publications across different specialties and provide a cross-gender analysis of research output and scientific impact of engineering researchers in academic, governmental, and industrial sectors. For this purpose, 679,338 engineering articles published from 2008 to 2013 are extracted from the Web of Science database and 974,837 authorships are analyzed. The structures of co-authorship collaboration networks in different engineering disciplines are examined, highlighting the role of female scientists in the diffusion of knowledge. The findings reveal that men dominate 80% of all the scientific production in engineering. Women engineers publish their papers in journals with higher Impact Factors than their male peers, but their work receives lower recognition (fewer citations) from the scientific community. Engineers-regardless of their gender-contribute to the reproduction of the male-dominated scientific structures through forming and repeating their collaborations predominantly with men. The results of this study call for integration of data driven gender-related policies in existing S&T discourse.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Concordia University, 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montréal, QC, H3G 1M8, Canada.
authors.forename: Gita
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ghiasi
authors.affiliation: École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC, H3C 3J7, Canada.|Observatoire des Sciences et des Technologies (OST), Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche sur la Science et la Technologie (CIRST), Université du Québec à Montréal, CP 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC, H3C 3P8, Canada.
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Larivière
authors.affiliation: School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, 1320 E. 10th St, Bloomington, IN, 47405, United States of America.
authors.forename: Cassidy R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Sugimoto
mesh_terms: D001319:Authorship; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D016208:Databases, Factual; D004738:Engineering / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D055811:Journal Impact Factor; D008297:Male; D011642:Publications / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011643:Publishing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data