Women as Academic Authors, 1665-2010

Women’s presence in higher education has increased, but as authors of scholarly papers (keys to career success) their publishing patterns differ from those of men. This visualization allows users to explore nearly 1,800 fields and subfields, across four centuries, to see which areas have the most female authors and which have the fewest. In this visualization by The Chronicle of Higher Education it is possible to see how overall percentages differ from the important first-author position and, in two major bioscience fields, from the prestigious last-author position.