Are Early Career Female Academics Still Coerced to be Second-To-Last Authors?
Are female early-career academics getting less credit for work done on behalf of (usually male) faculty who get unearned senior authorships?
Are female early-career academics getting less credit for work done on behalf of (usually male) faculty who get unearned senior authorships?
January 2024 update
Hagedoorn M, Sanderman R, Bolks HN, Tuinstra J, Coyne JC. Distress in couples coping with cancer: a meta-analysis and critical review of role and gender effects. Psychological Bulletin. 2008 Jan;134(1):1.
Anyone knowledgeable about the process of writing this Psychological Bulletin article will agree that the first author worked harder on it than on any paper she ever wrote before or since. It was my seventh paper in the journal, which put me among the authors with the most Psychological Bulletin papers in the entire world.
That number is not a big deal. Perhaps it was a manifestation of my obsession with organizing and mastering the larger literature associated with anything I happened to study. If so, that is my valuable baggage from coming from a background of public housing and welfare and being quite insecure about my brea…