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KMID : 0904520190500010005
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Health and Medical Sociology
2019 Volume.50 No. 1 p.5 ~ p.34
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Gender Gap in Health Policy Knowledge Production in Korea : An Analysis of Three Journals in 2000-201
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Kim Jin-Hwan
Kim Sae-Rom
Park Gum-Ryeong
Lee Jun-Hee
Kim Jung-Woo
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study is to explore the gendered nature of the health policy knowledge production by identifying the gender gaps in the authorship. We analyzed the articles published from 2000 to 2017 in the Health Policy and Management, Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, and Korean Health Economic Review and board members of the academies. Among the 1,812 papers analyzed, papers authored by a female as first author were 40.1% and papers as a corres ponding author were 24.3%. The proportion of female first author increased from 28.4% to 41.3%, and the proportion of female corresponding authors increased from 15.7% to 26.1% between 2000 and 2017. While 50.6% of female first authors were junior-level researchers, 50.9% of male first authors were professors. Likewise, 63.8% of female corresponding authors were professors and 25.4% were mid-level researchers, while 81.8% of male authors were professors. The proportion of female board members in the academies were 10.9% of the Korean Academy of Health Policy and Management (2000-2017), 4.1% of the Korean Society for Preventive Medicine (2009-2017), and 34 보건과 사회과학 제 집 50 (2019) 28.9% of the Korean Association of Health Economics and Policy (2010-2017) each. This study shows that despite the increasing number of female researchers, it applies mainly on the first author position, while positional inequality by gender persists. This study captures gender gap in health policy literature, but it displays only superficial aspect of gendered nature of health policy knowledge production. This is the first paper, as far as we know, to point out the gendered nature of the Korean health policy. We insist that systemic effort to explore the process and its effect of gendered knowledge production in health policy should be followed.
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KEYWORD
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Gender Gap, Gender, Authorship, Health Policy, Knowledge Production
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