The researchers, based out of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., found that female faculty in all six disciplines had as many collaborators or co-authors as their male counterparts. However, when looking into subdisciplines within the six fields, the researchers identified a stark underrepresentation in genomics.
“Our findings in molecular biology, particularly genomics, are what surprised us the most,” said Luís Amaral, a professor of chemical and biological engineering in the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. “There is a lot of research money in this high-profile area, and women are not represented proportionally. This raises all sorts of questions as to what kind of cultural environment has been created in the field.”
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