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2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

Gender Inequality in Psychological Research

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Social Psychology

  • Carmelle Bareket-Shavit
    Stanford University
  • Peter Goldie
    Stanford University
  • Elizabeth Mortenson
    Stanford University
  • Steven Roberts
    Stanford University

Abstract

We examined 28,000 publications in psychology journals to document gender representation in editorship and first-authorship. We find that publications have mostly been edited and first-authored by men. When editors have been men, but not when editors have been women, there has been a disproportionate amount of publications by men.

Gender