Table 1.
Summary statistics (average values) and gender gaps (average for women divided by average for men) in research output and impact, overall and in the last six years.
Fig 1.
Relationship between departmental proportion of women and women’s average number of publications with at least ten citations (i-10 index) relative to men.
The x-axis shows the proportion of women in each department. The y-axis measures the inverse gender gap in the number of publications, defined as the average number of publications by female scholars as a percentage of the average number of publications by male scholars, by department. Blue dots correspond to economic departments and green diamonds to political science departments. The line represents a locally weighted scatterplot smoothing (lowess). Departments with 0 women in our dataset (2 in economics and 5 in political science) are excluded from the analysis.
Fig 2.
Relationship between departmental proportion of women and women’s average total citations relative to men.
The x-axis shows the proportion of women in each department. The y-axis measures the inverse of the gender gap in the total citations, defined as the average total citations by female scholars as a percentage of the average total citations by male scholars, by department. Blue dots correspond to economic departments and green diamonds to political science departments. The line represents a locally weighted scatterplot smoothing (lowess). Departments with 0 women in our dataset (2 in economics and 5 in political science) are excluded from the analysis.
Fig 3.
Relationship between departmental proportion of women and women’s average citations of most cited publication relative to men.
The x-axis shows the proportion of women in each department. The y-axis measures the inverse of the gender gap in the citations per publication, defined as the average citations per publication by female scholars as a percentage of the average citations per publication by male scholars, by department. Blue dots correspond to economic departments and green diamonds to political science departments. The line represents a locally weighted scatterplot smoothing (lowess). Departments with 0 women in our dataset (2 in economics and 5 in political science) are excluded from the analysis.
Fig 4.
Relationship between departmental proportion of women and women’s average citations per publication relative to men.
The x-axis shows the proportion of women in each department. The y-axis measures the inverse of the gender gap in the citations per publication, defined as the average citations per publication by female scholars as a percentage of the average citations per publication by male scholars, by department. Blue dots correspond to economic departments and green diamonds to political science departments. The line represents a locally weighted scatterplot smoothing (lowess). Departments with 0 women in our dataset (2 in economics and 5 in political science) are excluded from the analysis.
Table 2.
Regression analysis of women’s publication and citation averages relative to men’s, on the proportion of women at the department level.