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Women network just like men The Swedish Research Council's survey on gender equality in academia shows that women and men network to about the same extent. And why should it not be so? This is the question posed by Louise von Essen, a Professor at Uppsala University, who believes that women are increasingly following men's recipe for success and forming publication cartels. 6
GUJOURNAL MARCH 2022
ACCORDING TO THE Swedish Research Council's report, women and men are relatively consistent in their assessment of what the success factors in higher education are: scientific merit is the most important, followed by access to networks. When previous studies indicated that women have a lack of access to the second most important success factor, the report's survey shows that 87 percent of women and 91 percent of men have had the opportunity to develop networks.
Louise von Essen, Professor at the Department of Women's and Children's Health at Uppsala University, is not surprised. In recent years, she has seen how women are increasingly doing what men have been doing for a long time – including one another in their publications and forming so-called publication cartels. – You just have to take a look at what publication lists are like. You cannot have an unlimited number of people contributing scientifically to a piece of research. There are
rules, the so-called Vancouver Protocol, which clarify what you must have contributed in order to be included in an article. You must have contributed significantly to the idea, analysis, reporting and a few other things. So how do some people manage to write 20 articles a year? The answer is that they do not really have time at all. FREDRIK BONDESTAM,
Director of the Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research, sees nothing strange about
