Where We Are Five Years Later: A Reexamination of Gender Disparities in Publication Trends in North American Archaeological Journals

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This project builds on the work of Dr. Bardolph's 2014 gender research, where she analyzed gender publication trends across 11 major archaeological journals from 1995 to 2014, assessing disparities between men and women in their number of publications. Her research put statistical value on what many researchers had before found to be true—men had higher rates of publication over women, often by wide margins. She argued this trend was a result of authorial behavior, not editor bias, as women were less likely to submit or resubmit publications for submission over male peers. In the five years since its publication, the difference between the number of women and men in archaeology has expanded, with women making up greater portions of graduate students and professionals than before, with those numbers growing every passing year. Due to recent events, both in archaeology and the world-at-large, where light is being shed on gender inequalities and abuse, this project reexamined those same 11 archaeological journals, evaluating whether publication trends have changed in the five years since Bardolph's survey, and where the future of archaeology is heading, from the perspective of an archaeologist on the cusp of a professional career.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• SAA 2021: General Sessions

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Abstract Id(s): 32351