Female Authorship Has Increased in Computer and Information Sciences, But Further Growth in Gender Representation is Still Needed

Computer science and information science and technology fields have long struggled to increase gender representation. The lack of female/women authors and researchers in these fields has been noted in several studies in past decades. A recent analysis of ten top computer and information science journals indicates that efforts to increase female participation in computer science and information science research fields may have had some effect, as representation of female authors has grown by a significant margin in the past decade. However, there remains a substantial gulf between the number of female authors in these fields compared the male authors.