Twenty years of gender equality research: A scoping review based on a new semantic indicator
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F21%3A10441669" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/21:10441669 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256474" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0256474</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Twenty years of gender equality research: A scoping review based on a new semantic indicator
Original language description
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.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
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Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
PLoS One
ISSN
1932-6203
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
16
Issue of the periodical within the volume
9
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
27
Pages from-to
e0256474
UT code for WoS article
000746527400006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85115783887