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| Title |
Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Science, January 2015
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| DOI | 10.1126/science.1261375 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Sarah-Jane Leslie, Andrei Cimpian, Meredith Meyer, Edward Freeland |
| Abstract |
The gender imbalance in STEM subjects dominates current debates about women's underrepresentation in academia. However, women are well represented at the Ph.D. level in some sciences and poorly represented in some humanities (e.g., in 2011, 54% of U.S. Ph.D.'s in molecular biology were women versus only 31% in philosophy). We hypothesize that, across the academic spectrum, women are underrepresented in fields whose practitioners believe that raw, innate talent is the main requirement for success, because women are stereotyped as not possessing such talent. This hypothesis extends to African Americans' underrepresentation as well, as this group is subject to similar stereotypes. Results from a nationwide survey of academics support our hypothesis (termed the field-specific ability beliefs hypothesis) over three competing hypotheses. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 801 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 217 | 27% |
| United Kingdom | 67 | 8% |
| Spain | 43 | 5% |
| Canada | 17 | 2% |
| Australia | 16 | 2% |
| France | 11 | 1% |
| Japan | 10 | 1% |
| Ireland | 9 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 8 | <1% |
| Other | 82 | 10% |
| Unknown | 321 | 40% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 503 | 63% |
| Scientists | 250 | 31% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 31 | 4% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 17 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 620 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 9 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | <1% |
| Canada | 3 | <1% |
| Belgium | 2 | <1% |
| Spain | 2 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Czechia | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 595 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 142 | 23% |
| Researcher | 73 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 54 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 53 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 38 | 6% |
| Other | 117 | 19% |
| Unknown | 143 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 99 | 16% |
| Social Sciences | 83 | 13% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 57 | 9% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 33 | 5% |
| Computer Science | 22 | 4% |
| Other | 164 | 26% |
| Unknown | 162 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2225. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 March 2024.
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#3,862
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Outputs from Science
#204
of 83,266 outputs
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#26
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#4
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So far Altmetric has tracked 83,266 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 65.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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