...when it comes to the logics of what was just described as the 
disappearance or the silencing of women (e.g. by hegemonial citation 
habits), one could start with the Matilda effect (Matthew effect, 
Merton) by Margaret W. Rossiter whose focus are the sciences, published 
in the mid 90ies in Social Studies of Science, Sage; short abstract of 
the article: http://sss.sagepub.com/content/23/2/325.abstract
all the best,
he



Am 27.10.2012 17:14, schrieb Marilyn:
> In philosophy, and I assume in other disciplines too, it matters a lot 
> whose work gets cited.  I recall reading about studies that showed 
> women's work gets cited considerably less, on average, than men's 
> work, in philosophy.  Does anybody know any sources on that?    I 
> think women's contributions, even when published, can just get erased, 
> like women so generally get erased from the histories in all areas 
> that survive and get handed down.
>
> Marilyn
>
>
>
> On Oct 27, 2012, at 12:41 AM, devora shapiro wrote:
>
>> What an odd assortment of "subfields."
>>
>> And if you look at the method for determining "gender of author": 
>> "Gender of authors was determined after researchers consulted data on 
>> birth names collected by the U.S. Social Security Administration. If 
>> a name was used at least 95 percent of the time for a female, that 
>> name was considered female;"
>>
>> What would have happened to the "woman" author count if they had 
>> realized Hilary Putnam was a man....
>>
>> Devora Shapiro
>>
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>> *Sent:* Friday, October 26, 2012 1:28 PM
>> *Subject:* Chronicle of Higher Ed article on the gender gap in 
>> scholarly publishing
>>
>> FYI. Once again philosophy noteworthy for underrepresentation of women...
>>
>> http://chronicle.com/article/The-Hard-Numbers-Behind/135236/
>>
>> enormous table by discipline
>>   http://chronicle.com/article/Woman-as-Academic-Authors/135192
>>
>> All best,
>> Emma
>> -- 
>> Emanuela Bianchi
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