Knowledge lost, parity gained? COVID-19 and gender gaps in Dutch academia

Jochem Tolsma (), Bas Hofstra and Anne Maaike Mulders
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Jochem Tolsma: Radboud University Nijmegen
Bas Hofstra: Radboud University Nijmegen
Anne Maaike Mulders: Radboud University Nijmegen

Scientometrics, 2025, vol. 130, issue 10, No 16, 5667-5694

Abstract: Abstract We investigated the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic impacted long-standing gender inequalities in Dutch academia. Dutch academia is an ideal case to gain insight on exacerbated gender differentials due to COVID-19 on employees, because men and women face comparable institutional contexts and any COVID-19 impact becomes visible and measurable fast through potentially decreased yearly publications. We reconstructed the complete publishing careers up till 2022 of more than 8000 Dutch scientists who received a PhD from 1990 onwards and still had an active publication career before the pandemic started. We compared the publication dip between men and women during COVID-19. Our data allowed us to investigate whether the gendered impact of COVID-19 varied across research domains, different PhD cohorts and type of research output. We consistently find that COVID-19 did not have more severe consequences on research output for women than for men.

Keywords: Science of science; COVID-19; Inequality; Gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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