Researchers are more likely to pen scientific papers with co-authors of the same gender, a pattern that cannot be simply explained by the varying gender representation across scientific disciplines and time, according to joint research from Cornell and the University of Washington. Mining a digital corpus of 560,000 published research articles over a 50-year period, the research team observed consistent gender homophily - the tendency of authors to collaborate with others who share their gender. While this observation by itself is not new, the researchers went further, using novel methods to rule out seemingly logical explanations - like a field's gender balance, say, or a field's authorship norms for writing research papers.
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