Women are underrepresented in computational biology: An analysis of the scholarly literature in biology, computer science and computational biology.

While women are generally underrepresented in STEM fields, there are noticeable differences between fields. For instance, the gender ratio in biology is more balanced than in computer science. We were interested in how this difference is reflected in the interdisciplinary field of computational/quan...

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Main Authors: Kevin S Bonham, Melanie I Stefan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-10-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5638210?pdf=render