Women in computer science research: what is the bibliography data telling us?

The low participation by women authors in research is an important equity issue in Computer Science Research (CSR). There are various parameters and methodologies that can be used to measure the gender imbalance. In this paper, we present a study on gender gap, imbalance and women participation in C...

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Published in:Computers & society 2016-03, Vol.46 (1), p.7-19
Main Authors: Agarwal, Swati, Mittal, Nitish, Katyal, Rohan, Sureka, Ashish, Correa, Denzil
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:The low participation by women authors in research is an important equity issue in Computer Science Research (CSR). There are various parameters and methodologies that can be used to measure the gender imbalance. In this paper, we present a study on gender gap, imbalance and women participation in CSR. We conduct our experiments on DBLP bibliographical database and analyze several years of publication dataset across various domains of CSR. We perform Exploratory Data Analysis on the bibliographical dataset and study the trend of gender imbalance over several years. We propose eight research questions across various facets and our results shows a significant gender imbalance in different sub-fields within CSR and low rate of women participation across various regions of world.
ISSN:0095-2737
DOI:10.1145/2908216.2908218