Gender trends in computer science authorship

@article{Wang2021GenderTI,
  title={Gender trends in computer science authorship},
  author={Lucy Lu Wang and Gabriel Stanovsky and Luca Weihs and Oren Etzioni},
  journal={Communications of the ACM},
  year={2021},
  volume={64},
  pages={78 - 84}
}
A comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of Computer Science literature (2.87 million papers through 2018) reveals that, if current trends continue, parity between the number of male and female authors will not be reached in this century. [] Key Result Finally, our analysis of collaboration trends in Computer Science reveals decreasing rates of collaboration between authors of different genders.
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