The Names We Know: Labor and Prestige in Archaeological Publishing

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Beyond Leaky Pipelines: Exploring Gender Inequalities in Archaeological Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In 1985, Joan Gero published an article in *American Antiquity* arguing that archaeologists conform in their professional roles to stereotypical American gender roles: publicly visible, dominant men collect and publish data and passive, publicly invisible women do the “archaeological housework.” This presentation evaluates whether and to what degree the adoption of such gender roles is still evident in archaeological practice by analyzing the identities of lead authors of articles with five or more collaborators published in a variety of journals. In doing so, it seeks to move understandings of gender bias beyond the dichotomies often characteristic of second wave feminist approaches and consider instead intersectional identities. Who is most often the lead author on publications with five or more authors? Have the identities of these lead authors changed over time? And, does the identity of the lead author correlate with factors such as the topic of the article or the type of journal in which it is published? Importantly, this presentation seeks not only to answer these questions, but also to consider their causes and consequences, particularly as related to labor, fit, and prestige.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Beyond Leaky Pipelines: Exploring Gender Inequalities in Archaeological Practice   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36747.0