What is it about?
This paper is about finding out how many women participate in HPC conferences (High-performance computing). We found that only about 10% of researchers in the field are women, with some variance based on country of origin, conference role, and work sector. We also found that female authors are cited a little less and reach higher experience metrics (publications, h-index) at lower rates.
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Why is it important?
The large gender gap in computer science research in general and HPC in particular has large detrimental effects on gender equality, the economy, and the quality of the science itself. But we cannot improve what we cannot measure. The analysis and open data in this paper can serve as a starting point for future research and improvements of the gender gap in this influential field.
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I have always heard anecdotal evidence about the poor state of representation of women in computer science research, and in particular in HPC. But until I performed these measurements, I didn't realize how consistently bad the situation is: in HPC, and even in computer systems as a whole, male authors outnumber females by some 9:1.
Eitan Frachtenberg
Reed College
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This page is a summary of: Representation of women in HPC conferences, November 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3458817.3476164.
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