Gender differences in research areas, methods and topics: Can people and thing orientations explain the results?
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Highlights：
• This article reports the share of male and female first authored articles in the USA in 285 narrow and 26 broad fields in 2017.
• Gender differences in research fields and topics cannot be fully explained by people/thing interest dimensions from psychology.
• There is greater female interest in veterinary science and cell biology and greater male interest in abstraction, patients, and power/control fields.
• Females researches seem more likely to use exploratory and qualitative methods rather than quantitative methods.
摘要
•This article reports the share of male and female first authored articles in the USA in 285 narrow and 26 broad fields in 2017.•Gender differences in research fields and topics cannot be fully explained by people/thing interest dimensions from psychology.•There is greater female interest in veterinary science and cell biology and greater male interest in abstraction, patients, and power/control fields.•Females researches seem more likely to use exploratory and qualitative methods rather than quantitative methods.
论文关键词：Gender,Academia,Disciplines,Underrepresentation,STEM
论文评审过程：Received 5 September 2018, Revised 26 November 2018, Accepted 2 December 2018, Available online 26 December 2018, Version of Record 26 December 2018.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2018.12.002
