论文标题
调查写作风格，作为科学技术性别差距的贡献者
Investigating writing style as a contributor to gender gaps in science and technology
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论文摘要
越来越多的研究表明，根据作者的性别，对科学贡献进行了不同的评估。在本文中，我们考虑写作风格的性别差异（男人和女人如何交流他们的工作）是否会导致这些观察到的性别差距。我们以一个框架进行调查，以表征书面文本的语言风格，并具有两组特征 - 信息（即强调事实的特征）并参与其中（即强调关系的特征）。使用大量的学术论文和专利样本，我们发现性别写作风格的显着差异，女性在写作中使用更多涉及的功能。女性也倾向于更多地引用具有更多参与功能的论文和专利。我们的发现表明，科学文本并非没有个人特征，这可能导致评估的偏见，从而损害了普遍主义作为科学基础原则的规范。
A growing stream of research finds that scientific contributions are evaluated differently depending on the gender of the author. In this article, we consider whether gender differences in writing styles - how men and women communicate their work - may contribute to these observed gender gaps. We ground our investigation in a framework for characterizing the linguistic style of written text, with two sets of features - informational (i.e., features that emphasize facts) and involved (i.e., features that emphasize relationships). Using a large sample of academic papers and patents, we find significant differences in writing style by gender, with women using more involved features in their writing. Papers and patents with more involved features also tend to be cited more by women. Our findings suggest that scientific text is not devoid of personal character, which could contribute to bias in evaluation, thereby compromising the norm of universalism as a foundational principle of science.
