Gender Distribution of Course Material Authors in a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Program.

IF 1.1 3区 农林科学 Q3 EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES Journal of veterinary medical education Pub Date : 2024-09-02 DOI:10.3138/jvme-2024-0022
John P Bourgeois, KiLee Fortier, Nicholas Frank
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The gender distribution of authors in the health sciences literature has been well documented. We explored whether this distribution persists among library course reserves for a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program, as course reserves are veterinary faculty members' own teaching materials. Such a bibliometric analysis of course reserves provides a novel method of examining curricular materials. In the Fall of 2022, researchers collected the library's current course reserve metadata, including fields, such as author names and material types. Binary gender was determined based on a variety of sources: traditional naming conventions, gender presentation in photographs, pronouns in signatures, and biographies. Of the 167 exported authors, 162 were included for further analysis in SPSS. Course reserves' authors were analyzed by collaborators and media type. The dichotomous gender distribution of first authors was 76% male/ 24% female. Female first authors were more likely to have collaborators than male first authors (39% vs 26%). When collaborations did occur, first and second authors had the same gender at a significantly higher rate. Exploring author gender across material type, we found that generally, the first author gender ratio remained 3 males to every female. Contextualizing these results in the framework of contemporary health sciences literature, we found that the gender disparities in course reserves to be unsurprising, while still disappointing.

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兽医学博士课程教材作者的性别分布。
健康科学文献中作者的性别分布已被充分记录。我们探讨了兽医学博士课程的图书馆课程储备中是否存在这种分布,因为课程储备是兽医教师自己的教学材料。这种对课程储备的文献计量分析提供了一种检查课程材料的新方法。2022 年秋季,研究人员收集了图书馆当前的课程储备元数据,包括作者姓名和材料类型等字段。二元性别的确定基于多种来源:传统的命名惯例、照片中的性别呈现、签名中的代词以及传记。在导出的 167 位作者中,有 162 位被纳入 SPSS 进行进一步分析。课程储备作者按合作者和媒体类型进行了分析。第一作者的二分法性别分布为 76% 男性/24% 女性。女性第一作者比男性第一作者更有可能有合作者(39% 对 26%)。在有合作者的情况下,第一作者和第二作者性别相同的比例明显更高。在对不同材料类型的作者性别进行调查后,我们发现,一般来说,第一作者的性别比例仍然是 3:1。将这些结果纳入当代健康科学文献的框架中,我们发现课程储备中的性别差异不足为奇,但仍然令人失望。
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113
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>36 weeks
期刊介绍: The Journal of Veterinary Medical Education (JVME) is the peer-reviewed scholarly journal of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC). As an internationally distributed journal, JVME provides a forum for the exchange of ideas, research, and discoveries about veterinary medical education. This exchange benefits veterinary faculty, students, and the veterinary profession as a whole by preparing veterinarians to better perform their professional activities and to meet the needs of society. The journal’s areas of focus include best practices and educational methods in veterinary education; recruitment, training, and mentoring of students at all levels of education, including undergraduate, graduate, veterinary technology, and continuing education; clinical instruction and assessment; institutional policy; and other challenges and issues faced by veterinary educators domestically and internationally. Veterinary faculty of all countries are encouraged to participate as contributors, reviewers, and institutional representatives.
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