Women are underrepresented in physics Tapanakorn Katvong/EyeEm/Alamy
The number of women authoring scientific papers is increasing, but men still dominate overall and some fields won’t reach gender equity until the next century, according to a major analysis.
at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and at the University of Montreal in Canada analysed nearly 5.5 million scientific papers published between 2008 and 2020, using a machine-learning algorithm to estimate the likelihood that a person’s name belonged to a man or woman.
Names that were 10 times as likely to be assigned to a man than…
