According to a new study, the share of female first authors on papers in major medical journals rose from 27 percent to 37 percent between 1994 and 2014. That’s the good news, such as it is; the bad news is that the bulk of those gains occurred before 2009. After that point the trend plateaued, and even dropped in some publications — including the New England Journal of Medicine, perhaps the world’s most coveted medical periodical.
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