Representation Of Female Authors Research Articles

Study on analysis of gender disparities among the first authors of publications on Menetriers disease

The disparities in gender representation within academic writing highlight pervasive social prejudices and inequalities, with male researchers predominating in both quantity and visibility, perpetuating a cycle of unequal representation. This imbalance limits the diversity of perspectives in intellectual discourse. However, there has been a noticeable increase in the representation of female authors, breaking traditional gender barriers. This research article aims to investigate gender disparities among first authors in medical literature concerning Menetrier's disease over the past 22 years. A cross-sectional study of 130 relevant publications from PubMed between January 2001 and December 2022 was conducted, analyzing the gender distribution of first authors using SPSS software. Results indicate that 70.7% of the articles had male first authors, with intermittent periods of female author prominence. While countries like China, Spain, and Italy showed relatively equitable gender ratios, others such as Japan, Turkey, India, and the Republic of Korea exhibited significant male dominance. However, no significant association between gender and country of authors was found. Despite these findings, limitations include potential errors in gender determination methods, focusing solely on first authorship, and overlooking contributions from co-authors, while the selected journals and countries may not fully represent global gender disparities.

Representation of female authors in oncology: the Indian perspective.

Despite an increasing number of female oncologists, disparities persist in authorship representation of women, especially in high-impact journals. This study aimed to investigate gender differences in authorship within select high-impact Indian oncology journals over a 5-year period, assessing trends in the gender gap. Six high-impact Indian oncology journals were selected for analysis. Data on original articles, reviews and editorials published between 2017 and 2022 were collected, including authors' gender, their role as first author or corresponding author and name of the journal. Gender determination was validated through web searches. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize the data and to study the prevalence of female authorship across journals. A total of 2,235 articles were included. Across all journals, 30.4% of authors were female, with Journal of Cancer Research and Treatment exhibiting the highest proportion of female authors (948/2,507; 37.8%). Female authorship increased over time, with first authors rising from 33% to 41%, and corresponding authors from 29.4% to 36.4%. However, disparities persisted, and certain journals exhibited fluctuating trends. Female authorship was higher in original articles (30.9%) compared to reviews (27.8%) and editorials (24.5%). Women comprised 3.5%-24.4% of the editorial boards of the six journals. Female representation, both as authors and editorial board members of Indian oncology journals is disproportionately low. Proactive measures are necessary to address these disparities and promote gender equity in academic publishing.

Unveiling the gender gap in research: a bibliometric analysis of the 100 most-cited articles on food-borne pathogen outbreaks from 1990 to 2020.

Despite a recent increase in the representation of female authors in scientific literature, a significant gap persists concerning the inclusion of women in research. This necessitates the analysis of published literature from a gender perspective. This study aimed to provide gender distribution in authorship in the 100 most-cited articles on food-borne pathogen outbreaks from 1990 to 2020. Bibliometric analysis was conducted using the Scopus database. Two reviewers were selected to search the database. We included the 100 most-cited articles on foodborne outbreak investigations. The analysis was conducted using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26 and Microsoft Excel version 2016. The citation data, including total citations, citations per year, and representation of women as first and senior authors, was analyzed in terms of frequencies, mean, median, and interquartile range. The correlation between journal impact factor and the representation of women in high-impact factor journals was determined. A p-value of <0.05 was considered significant. Most of the top-cited articles were published between 2001 and 2010 (n=47). The top 3 most-cited articles were from the USA. Of the total 100 articles, women were the first and last authors in 46% and 28% of the articles, respectively, reflecting a significant gender gap. However, the proportion of females as principal investigators gradually increased from 25% (n=10/30) to 52% (n=24/47) during the period 2001-2010 and to 92% (n=12/13) during 2011-2020. The USA had the highest number of included articles (n=48), and women were principal authors in 56% (n=27) of them. The lowest representation of women was observed in Austria, Denmark, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. Women are under-represented in published literature on food-borne pathogen outbreaks. Although the representation of women as principal authors has recently increased, disparities still exist at the senior-author level, calling for women's advancement in academic science.

The Woman Writer on Film and the #MeToo Literary Biopic

Abstract This article focuses on the representation of female authors’ lives in English-language literary biopics and how these representations relate to feminist contexts. Departing from previous research on biopics focusing on women (particularly women writers), this article identifies four categories of such films: the patriarchal literary biopic, in which the representation of an author’s life is related to patriarchal values, the second-wave feminist literary biopic, which is related to second-wave feminism, the postfeminist literary biopic, which is related to postfeminism, and finally the #MeToo literary biopic, a new category of films that has recently begun to emerge. By analyzing the films Colette (Wash Westmoreland, 2018) and Wild Nights with Emily (Madeleine Olnek, 2019), this article shows how these films correspond to the #MeToo movement. The #MeToo literary biopic is characterized by (a) excessive attention to difficult publication processes and the disclosure of women’s words, (b) emphasizing the persistent censoring of women’s words, (c) deconstructing the myths surrounding female authors, and (d) underscoring (female) solidarity and empowerment.

Representation of female authors in the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia: a retrospective analysis of articles between 1954 and 2017.

Females remain under-represented in academic anesthesiology. Our objectives were to investigate gender differences over time in the first and last authors of published articles as well as corresponding citation rates in the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia (CJA). We conducted a cross-sectional, retrospective analysis of first and last authors' gender from editorials and original articles published in the CJA in a sample of one calendar year of each decade between 1954 to 2017. We analyzed the relationships between author gender, year of publication, article type, and number of citations. Out of 639 articles identified, 542 (85%) were original investigations and 97 (15%) were editorials. Where gender could be confidently identified, the majority (461/571, 81%) of first authors were male. Although there was an increase in the proportion of female first authors over time, this increase was outpaced by the overall increase in female anesthesiologists in Canada. Original articles received more citations and were more likely to have a female first author than editorial articles were. An original article with a female first author resulted in 0.34 (95% confidence interval, 0.28 to 0.39; P < 0.001) more citations per article than a male first author when adjusting for year of publication. Our study shows that, despite a slow increase over time, female authors are under-represented relative to male authors in the CJA and relative to the changing demographics of anesthesiologists in Canada. The reasons for this disparity are multifactorial and further research is needed to identify effective solutions.

Distantly Reading the Romantic Canon: Quantifying Gender in Current Anthologies

This essay deploys Franco Moretti's methods of “distant reading” in order to trace the effect of feminism on Romantic-period anthologies published in the last 50 years. We argue that these anthologies cannot be read traditionally, but must be reduced to statistics and thus read “distantly” to obtain an accurate understanding of their representation of women writers. In this case, we quantify the representation of female authors by calculating the exact number and percentage of pages devoted to women authors across the history of the Norton Anthology of English Literature and other anthologies published in the last two decades. This quantitative approach provides a means to judge the rhetoric of canon revolution versus the numerical reality. Based on our analysis, we propose additional context sections, increased representation of women, and further experimentation with the organization of Romantic period anthologies.

Transforming the Medieval Iberian Canon: Finding a Space for Women

Critical Cluster Bringing Iberian Women Writers into the Canon Guest Editors Dawn Bratsch-Prince and Montserrat Piera Arxiu Historic de la Ciutat de Barcelona, MS L-18, folio G (parchment, 406 folios, 41 .5 ? 63 cm; scribe Joan Esteve; illuminator Bernât Martorell, d. 1451). This illumination serves as a framed frontispiece for the first page ofthe Comentaría super Usaticis Barchinonae (Comentaris als usatges de Barcelona) written in Latin by Jaume Marquilles (1 368- 145 1). The presentation miniature shows Maria ofCastile presiding over a session ofthe Conseil de Cent, the town council of Barcelona, with Catalan jurist Jaume Marquilles formally presenting to the Queen and consellers his commentaries on the Usatges, the fundamental law code of the city. The five principal consellers seated directly on the Queen's right —Bernât Sapila, Pere Romeu, Pere Serra, Berenguer Llull, and Felip de Ferrera- are dressed in their official gramalla, the distinctive fur-trimmed red robes of their office. TRANSFORMING THE MEDIEVAL IBERIAN CANON: FINDING A SPACE FOR WOMEN Dawn Bratsch-Prince Iowa State University In their compelling analysis of the gender of the Hispanic literary canon, Crista Johnson and Joan Brown show that the representation of female authors, across centuries and continents, on required reading lists at Ph.D.-granting institutions in the United States is, at best, minimal and inconsistent. Scholarly activity on women writers, however , is substantial -one might even say vigorous- and so sadly at odds with those lists of required or canonical works. Johnson and Brown ask: "How much time must elapse before current scholarly trends are communicated to the next generation of scholars?" (1998, 473). The last two decades of the twentieth century witnessed great strides in the amount and scope of scholarly research on women's history in medieval Iberia,1 and women's literary history, too, received attention from an array of scholars, male and female.2 At long last, some of the better known female-authored texts have been made available to scholars via critical editions and thematic anthologies.3 Acutely missing from this activity has been a conversation on how female-authored texts can be best incorporated into the mainstream of literary and historical canons. How do we present these works to students who have been 1 See A.M. Aguado 1994; Elisa Garrido, et al, 1997; Heath Dillard 1984; Mary Nash 1988; Alain Saint-Saens 1997; Marilyn Stone and Carmen Benito Vessels 1998; Teresa María Vinyoles i Vidal 1983, 1984, 1993, 1996. 2 See Carolyn L. Galerstein 1986; Linda Gould Levine 1993; Francisco López Estrada 1986; Carmen Marimón Llorca 1990; Kathleen McNerney and Cristina Enriquez de Salamanca 1994; Louise Mirrer 1992, 1996; Ronald Surtz 1990, 1995. 3 ElectaArenal and Stacey Schlau 1989; Amy KatzKaminsky 1997; MiguelAngel Pérez Priego 1989; MariaJesús Rubiera Mata 1989. La corónica 32.1 (Fall, 2003): 7-13 8 Dawn Bratsch-PrinceLa coránica 32.1, 2003 implicitly taught that medieval and early modern women did not write, or that the odd one who did wrote something "less than literary"? As Lola Luna accurately asserts, "aún parece ejercerse una política de exclusión que elimina a las mujeres de la institución 'Historia de la literatura'" (1995, 128). Women writers, she continues, are either relegated to a separate universe of "feminine" writing, or they are regendered as transgressive or "masculine" writers (128). Nor do the types of works they composed fit into the general definition of literature , which frequently omits religious prose texts, letters and treatises . By virtue of their exclusion from canonical anthologies and reading lists, women authors are perceived as not measuring up to some undefined, yet understood, benchmark. The nine articles in this Critical Cluster focus on how to go about the (re)placement or (re)incorporation of these texts and voices into a body of canonical texts. Of utmost importance is the consideration of how these works can be best presented to students who struggle to accept female-authored texts as "real" or "valid". Among the questions we pose are: How do these texts fit into what we typically value and teach? Given the current configuration of anthologies in our field, how can these...