The leadership of women in communication research in Spain

Abstract

The objective of this article, based on the results of the R+D+i project “Maps of communication research in Spanish Universities from 2007 to 2018”, is to offer the current state of the presence, access and leadership of women on academic research in the field of communication. The results show that the gender gap persists in the social sciences and to a lesser extent in the field of communication. Women consume their doctorate in a higher proportion than men and outperform them in the authorship of contributions to congresses and presence in the Spanish Association for Communication Research as associates without leadership positions in the management of R+D+i projects, doctoral thesis, research groups, responsibility positions in the Spanish Association for Communication Research or in the publication of articles in the journals with the greatest impact of the specialty.