How COVID is widening the academic gender divide
- Written by Kirsty Duncanson, Senior Lecturer in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies, La Trobe University
Charles Deluvio/UnsplashFrom the first rumblings of its spread, COVID-19’s impact on women academics was immediate. In a sign of the gendered nature of the pandemic’s impacts, men’s research submissions to academic journals almost instantly increased by 50%, single-author articles by women dropped.
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