Twenty years of gender equality research: A scoping review based on a new semantic indicator

Autor: Paola Rovelli, Filippo Chiarello, Andrea Fronzetti Colladon, Paola Belingheri
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Male
Economics
Economics of Training and Education
Social Sciences
Social Networking
Cognition
Sociology
Medicine and Health Sciences
Relevance (law)
Psychology
Human Capital
Multidisciplinary
Point (typography)
Careers
Child and Adolescent Health Policy
Compensation (psychology)
Public relations
Semantics
Social Networks
Medicine
Female
Network Analysis
Research Article
Gender Equity
Employment
Entrepreneurship
Computer and Information Sciences
Science
Decision Making
Human capital
Sustainability Science
Education
Sexual and Gender Issues
Humans
Disadvantage
Health Care Policy
business.industry
Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Sustainability science
Cognitive Psychology
Correction
Biology and Life Sciences
Educational attainment
Health Care
Leadership
Labor Economics
Cognitive Science
business
Neuroscience
Zdroj: PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 9, p e0256474 (2021)
Popis: Gender equality is a major problem that places women at a disadvantage thereby stymieing economic growth and societal advancement. In the last two decades, extensive research has been conducted on gender related issues, studying both their antecedents and consequences. However, existing literature reviews fail to provide a comprehensive and clear picture of what has been studied so far, which could guide scholars in their future research. Our paper offers a scoping review of a large portion of the research that has been published over the last 22 years, on gender equality and related issues, with a specific focus on business and economics studies. Combining innovative methods drawn from both network analysis and text mining, we provide a synthesis of 15,465 scientific articles. We identify 27 main research topics, we measure their relevance from a semantic point of view and the relationships among them, highlighting the importance of each topic in the overall gender discourse. We find that prominent research topics mostly relate to women in the workforce–e.g., concerning compensation, role, education, decision-making and career progression. However, some of them are losing momentum, and some other research trends–for example related to female entrepreneurship, leadership and participation in the board of directors–are on the rise. Besides introducing a novel methodology to review broad literature streams, our paper offers a map of the main gender-research trends and presents the most popular and the emerging themes, as well as their intersections, outlining important avenues for future research.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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