论文标题
COVID-19大流行期间研究生产力的性别不平等
Gender Inequality in Research Productivity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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论文摘要
我们研究了Covid-19爆发对女性学者和男性学者在社会科学领域的研究生产力的锁定影响不成比例的影响。锁定造成了对学术活动的重大干扰，要求人们在家工作。这种破坏如何影响生产力和相关的性别平等是一个重要的行动和社会问题。我们从社会科学的最大开放式预印库中收集了41,858个研究预印库，该数据在25个国家 /地区的76,832名作者在两年的时间内产生了76,832名作者。我们使用利用外源性大流行休克的差异差异方法。我们的结果表明，在美国锁定后的10周内，尽管总研究生产率提高了35％，但相对于男性学者，女性学者的生产率下降了13.9％。我们还表明，几个学科驱动了这种性别不平等。最后，我们发现这种加强的生产力差距对于排名最高的大学的学者更为明显，并且在其他六个国家中存在效果。我们的工作指出了由封锁引起的生产力问题的公平问题，这一发现表明，大学在评估教师生产率时会很有帮助。它还可以帮助组织实现远程办公可能产生的潜在意想不到的后果。
We study the disproportionate impact of the lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak on female and male academics' research productivity in social science. The lockdown has caused substantial disruptions to academic activities, requiring people to work from home. How this disruption affects productivity and the related gender equity is an important operations and societal question. We collect data from the largest open-access preprint repository for social science on 41,858 research preprints in 18 disciplines produced by 76,832 authors across 25 countries over a span of two years. We use a difference-in-differences approach leveraging the exogenous pandemic shock. Our results indicate that, in the 10 weeks after the lockdown in the United States, although the total research productivity increased by 35%, female academics' productivity dropped by 13.9% relative to that of male academics. We also show that several disciplines drive such gender inequality. Finally, we find that this intensified productivity gap is more pronounced for academics in top-ranked universities, and the effect exists in six other countries. Our work points out the fairness issue in productivity caused by the lockdown, a finding that universities will find helpful when evaluating faculty productivity. It also helps organizations realize the potential unintended consequences that can arise from telecommuting.
