The unwomanly face of literary awards

The unwomanly face of literary awards | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Research Article The unwomanly face of literary awards Maria Caballer-Tarazona, Pedro J. Pérez-Vázquez, Xenxo Vidal-Llana This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8388588/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract Despite women's better academic outcomes and their greater engagement in literature activities, there does not exist a correlation between literary involvement and public recognition in literary awards terms. Data display a global gender gap in this area, all countries show significant gender differences in recognition, with men receiving a higher proportion of literary awards than women. In order to explore this gender gap from a longitudinal and geographically-differentiated perspective, we take advantage of the Wikidata potentialities, using this rich and updated data source for addressing our research. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to display the state and trends of gender gap in literary prizes, to map the geographic distribution and evolution of this gender bias in females’ literary recognitions. Literary awards gender gap internet related public sphere information bias Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. Cite Share Download PDF Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. We do this by developing innovative software and high quality services for the global research community. Our growing team is made up of researchers and industry professionals working together to solve the most critical problems facing scientific publishing. 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