Dec 20, 2019 08:00:00

Male scientists tend to advocate their research as “great” than female scientists

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Ani Kolleshi

In recent years, disparities based on social and cultural gender (gender) have attracted attention, and it has been pointed out that gender disparities are also deeply rooted in the scientific field. Meanwhile, `` male researchers are more likely to praise self-portraits by scattering adjectives such as 'new than ever', 'unique' and 'excellent' in their summaries compared to female researchers. '' The research results were reported in the British Medical Journal , a British medical journal .

Gender differences in research reporting | The BMJ
https://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l6692

Men are more likely than women to call their science 'excellent'-The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/12/16/men-are-more-likely-than-women-call-their-science-excellent/

Mark Lachenmüller, an economist at the University of Mannheim, was reading a large amount of papers at home. Rachen Müller speculated that there was a systematic difference in the way gendered research papers were written.

So, a research team led by Mr. Lachenmüller analyzed over 100,000 medical studies and 6.2 million life science papers published in the past 15 years. As a result, it was revealed that the possibility of using positive words such as “advantageous” and “excellent” in research papers written by female researchers was 12% lower than that of male researchers Did.

Also, women are more likely to describe their research in terms of “excellent” or “excellent” than men, especially when limited to articles published in well-known and influential journals. It was said that it was low. In addition, male article authors use the word 'new' 60% more frequently than female authors, 'unique' 44% more frequently, and 'promising' 72% more frequently. It was also high. For this reason, the research team argues that male researchers are more prone to show off their research content in a self-proclaimed manner than female researchers.

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Rachen Müller commented on the findings, saying, 'I think women researchers should hype their research more.' This suggests that it may be one of the causes of gender disparity seen in the world. However, Mr. Lachenmüller said at the same time, “This study cannot identify why the frequency of word usage between men and women is different,” he said.

`` To see if there is a causal relationship between gender differences and the frequency of word usage in dissertations, more women need to be surveyed more closely, '' said Donna Ginser, an economist at the University of Kansas. 'The fundamental question is whether the difference in language choice between men and women is inherent or influenced by the growth process and culture.' It was.