Gender and territorial patterns in the distribution of academic prestige. The case of the National Awards of the Cuban Academy of Sciences (2014-2023)
Keywords:
scientific awards, authorial prestige, inequalitiesAbstract
Introduction: Gender and territory dynamics are a main focus of the research on the participation on science, technology and innovation in Cuba.
Objective: To analyze the gender and territorial patterns in the set of works recognized with the National Awards of the Cuban Academy of Sciences during the period from 2014 to 2023.
Methods: The set of authors, and their relationships within the author groups of each work, were modeled with a co-authorship network. The authors were grouped according to their gender and the province of their institutional affiliation, and it was compared the effect of these groupings on the distribution of a centrality measure, used here as an estimator of authorial prestige. It was also compared the percentage of female participation per award in each of the branches of science.
Results: The analysis of the centrality measure revealed that, regardless of the grouping by gender, the authors from the capital have a statistically higher score than their counterparts from the rest of the country. The patterns of female participation in each branch of science are consistent with the dynamics of feminization and masculinization of the academic disciplines in the country, as evidenced by official statistics and the results of other studies.
Conclusion: The results of this study contribute to highlight the inequalities in the dynamics of participation in science, technology and innovation that persist in the country, and how these inequalities are reproduced in the spaces of greater social legitimization of the scientific activity.Downloads
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