Gender equity in health research publishing in Africa

被引:12
作者
Baobeid, Anwaar [1 ]
Faghani-Hamadani, Tara [1 ]
Sauer, Sara [2 ]
Boum, Yap, II [3 ]
Hedt-Gauthier, Bethany L. [2 ]
Neufeld, Nicholas [4 ,5 ]
Odhiambo, Jackline [6 ]
Volmink, Jimmy [7 ]
Shuchman, Miriam [4 ]
Di Ruggiero, Erica [1 ]
Condo, Jeanine U. [8 ,9 ]
机构
[1] Univ Toronto, Ctr Global Hlth, Dalla Lana Sch Publ Hlth, Toronto, ON, Canada
[2] Harvard Med Sch, Global Hlth & Social Med, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[3] Medecins Sans Frontieres, Epictr, Yaounde, Cameroon
[4] Univ Toronto, Dept Psychiat, Toronto, ON, Canada
[5] Ctr Addict & Mental Hlth, Toronto, ON, Canada
[6] Maseno Univ, Sch Publ Hlth & Community Dev, Kisumu, Kenya
[7] Stellenbosch Univ, Dept Global Hlth, Fac Med & Hlth Sci, Cape Town, South Africa
[8] Natl Univ Rwanda, Sch Publ Hlth, Kigali, Rwanda
[9] Tulane Univ, New Orleans, LA 70118 USA
关键词
Public Health; INEQUALITY; PROMOTION;
D O I
10.1136/bmjgh-2022-008821
中图分类号
R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
学科分类号
1004 ; 120402 ;
摘要
Introduction Women researchers find it more difficult to publish in academic journals than men, an inequity that affects women's careers and was exacerbated during the pandemic, particularly for women in low-income and middle-income countries. We measured publishing by sub-Saharan African (SSA) women in prestigious authorship positions (first or last author, or single author) during the time frame 2014-2016. We also examined policies and practices at journals publishing high rates of women scientists from sub-Saharan Africa, to identify potential structural enablers affecting these women in publishing. Methods The study used Namsor V.2, an application programming interface, to conduct a secondary analysis of a bibliometric database. We also analysed policies and practices of ten journals with the highest number of SSA women publishing in first authorship positions. Results Based on regional analyses, the greatest magnitude of authorship inequity is in papers from sub-Saharan Africa, where men comprised 61% of first authors, 65% of last authors and 66% of single authors. Women from South Africa and Nigeria had greater success in publishing than those from other SSA countries, though women represented at least 20% of last authors in 25 SSA countries. The journals that published the most SSA women as prominent authors are journals based in SSA. Journals with overwhelmingly male leadership are also among those publishing the highest number of SSA women. Conclusion Women scholars in SSA face substantial gender inequities in publishing in prestigious authorship positions in academic journals, though there is a cadre of women research leaders across the region. Journals in SSA are important for local women scholars and the inequities SSA women researchers face are not necessarily attributable to gender discrepancy in journals' editorial leadership.
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