  Gender disparities appear to be decreasing in academia according to a number
of metrics, such as grant funding, hiring, acceptance at scholarly journals,
and productivity, and it might be tempting to think that gender inequity will
soon be a problem of the past. However, a large-scale analysis based on over
eight million papers across the natural sciences, social sciences, and
humanities re- reveals a number of understated and persistent ways in which
gender inequities remain. For instance, even where raw publication counts seem
to be equal between genders, close inspection reveals that, in certain fields,
men predominate in the prestigious first and last author positions. Moreover,
women are significantly underrepresented as authors of single-authored papers.
Academics should be aware of the subtle ways that gender disparities can appear
in scholarly authorship.
