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Pleun van Arensbergen
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Science System Assessment, Rathenau Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands
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Inge van der Weijden
CWTS, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Peter van den Besselaar
Peter van den Besselaar
Department of Organization Science & Network Institute, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Abstract
There is substantial literature on research performance differences between male and female researchers, and its explanation. Using publication records of 852 social scientists, we show that performance differences indeed exist. However, our case study suggests that in the younger generation of researchers these have disappeared. If performance differences exist at all in our case, young female researchers outperform young male researchers. The trend in developed societies, that women increasingly outperform men in all levels of education, is also becoming effective in the science system.
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