Based on the research by Cassidy Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière, gender parity in the authorship of scientific papers will be reached in 2069 for biology, 2087 for chemistry, 2144 for the fields of engineering and mathematics, and 2158 in the case of physics
For a long time, many women scientists have seen their contribution to research minimized or even denied. While this phenomenon is tending to be reversed, women researchers are still under-represented, compared to men, in specialist publications.