Female empowerment and education: a bibliometric analysis

Authors

  • Cristina Santos-Rojo ESIC Business & Marketing School / ESIC University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37467/revhuman.v11.4301

Keywords:

Gender Equality, Female Empowerment, Education, SDG, Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

The aim of this study is to produce a rigorous and up-to-date synthesis of education and gender equality in academia. To this end, a bibliometric analysis is carried out in order to evaluate in an objective and quantifiable way the state of the literature on these two aspects. The period under study covers 11 years, starting on 1 January 2011 and ending on 31 December 2021. Thus, the analysis includes a five-year period, before and after 2016, which is considered the official start of the 2030 Agenda.
Preliminary results show that research on education and gender equality has moved from North America to Asia. The importance of the topic is confirmed by the high number of studies funded by public and private entities.

References

Anyanwu, J. C. (2016). Accounting for gender equality in secondary school enrollment in Africa. African Development Review, 28(2), 170-191. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8268.12188

Aragonés-González, M., Rosser-Limiñana, A., & Gil-González, D. (2020). Coeducation and gender equality in education systems: A scoping review. Children and Youth Services Review, 111, 104837. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.104837

Araujo, A. G., Carneiro, A. M. P., & Palha, R. P. (2020). Sustainable construction management: A systematic review of the literature with meta-analysis. Journal of Cleaner Production, 256, 120350. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120350

Asongu, S.A., Odhiambo, N.M., 2020. Inequality and gender inclusion: minimum ICT policy thresholds for promoting female employment in sub-Saharan Africa. Telecomm. Policy 44(4), 101900. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2019.101900. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2019.101900

Çalıyurt, K. T. (2020). Women Rights for Sustainable Business and Entrepreneurship: Case from Balkan Area. In New Approaches to CSR, Sustainability and Accountability, Volume I (pp. 173-192). Springer, Singapore. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9588-9_10

Cancino, C. A., Merigó, J. M., & Coronado, F. C. (2017). A bibliometric analysis of leading universities in innovation research. Journal of Innovation & Knowledge, 2(3), 106-124. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2017.03.006

Cavalcanti, T., & Tavares, J. (2007). The output cost of gender discrimination: a model-based macroeconomic estimate.

De Bakker, F.G., Groenewegen, P., & Den Hond, F. (2005). A bibliometric analysis of 30 years of research and theory on corporate social responsibility and corporate social performance. Business & Society, 44(3), 283–317. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0007650305278086

Duflo, E., 2012. Women empowerment and economic development. J. Econ. Lit. 50 (4), 1051–1079. https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.50.4.1051. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.50.4.1051

EIGE, 2020. Gender Inequality. Recuperado de gender inequality | European Institute for Gender Equality (europa.eu).

García Holgado, A., Camacho Díaz, A., & García Peñalvo, F. J. (2019). La brecha de género en el sector STEM en América Latina: Una propuesta europea. DOI: https://doi.org/10.26754/CINAIC.2019.0143

Grow A and Van Bavel J (2015). Assortative mating and the reversal of gender inequality in education in Europe: An agent-based model. PLOS ONE, 10(6): e0127806. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127806. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0127806

Hirsch, J. E. 2005. An Index to Quantify an Individual’s Scientific Research Output. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 102: 16569– 16572. doi:10.1073/pnas.0507655102. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0507655102

Instituto de Estadística de la UNESCO. Resumen de Datos del ODS4 2021. Resumen de Datos del ODS4 2021: Puntos de referencia nacionales del ODS 4: cumplir con nuestro compromiso, resumen - UNESCO Biblioteca Digital

Jayachandran, S. (2015). The roots of gender inequality in developing countries. Economics, 7(1), 63-88. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-080614-115404

King, T. L., Kavanagh, A., Scovelle, A. J., & Milner, A. (2020). Associations between gender equality and health: a systematic review. Health promotion international, 35(1), 27-41.

Klasen, S. (2002). Low schooling for girls, slower growth for all? Cross‐country evidence on the effect of gender inequality in education on economic development. The World Bank Economic Review, 16(3), 345-373. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhf004

Klasen, S., & Wink, C. (2003). „ Missing women“: Revisiting the debate. Feminist Economics, 9(2-3), 263-299. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1354570022000077999

Kleven, H., & Landais, C. (2017). Gender inequality and economic development: fertility, education and norms. Economica, 84(334), 180-209. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12230

Krauze, T. K., & Hillinger, C. (1971). Citations, references and the growth of scientific literature: A model of dynamic interaction. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 22(5), 333-336. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.4630220507 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.4630220507

Lee, K. K., & Vu, T. V. (2020). Economic complexity, human capital and income inequality: a cross-country analysis. The Japanese Economic Review, 71(4), 695-718. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42973-019-00026-7

López-Rubio, P., Roig-Tierno, N., & Mas-Tur, A. (2020). Regional innovation system research trends: toward knowledge management and entrepreneurial ecosystems. International Journal of Quality Innovation, 6(1), 1-16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40887-020-00038-x

Mas-Tur, A., Roig-Tierno, N., Sarin, S., Haon, C., Sego, T., Belkhouja, M., & Merigó, J. M. (2021). Co-citation, bibliographic coupling and leading authors, institutions and countries in the 50 years of Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 165, 120487. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120487

Merigó, J. M., Cancino, C. A., Coronado, F., & Urbano, D. (2016). Academic research in innovation: a country analysis. Scientometrics, 108(2), 559-593. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-1984-4

Merigó, J. M., Mas-Tur, A., Roig-Tierno, N., & Ribeiro-Soriano, D. (2015). A bibliometric overview of the Journal of Business Research between 1973 and 2014. Journal of Business Research, 68(12), 2645-2653. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.04.006

Minasyan, A., Zenker, J., Klasen, S., & Vollmer, S. (2019). Educational gender gaps and economic growth: A systematic review and meta-regression analysis. World Development, 122, 199-217. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.05.006

Mulet-Forteza, C., Genovart-Balaguer, J., Mauleon-Mendez, E., & Merigó, J. M. (2018). A bibliometric research in the tourism, leisure and hospitality fi elds. Journal of Business Research. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.12.002

Myers, R. M., & Griffin, A. L. (2019). The geography of gender inequality in international higher education. Journal of Studies in International Education, 23(4), 429-450. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315318803763

Nguyen, C. P. (2021). Gender equality and economic complexity. Economic Systems, 45(4), 100921. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecosys.2021.100921

Odaga, G. (2020). Gender in Uganda’s tertiary educational distribution. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 2(1), 100023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2020.100023

ODS 4 (2021). Liderar la consecución del ODS 4 – Educación 2030 | UNESCO

Opthof, T., & Leydesdorff, L. (2011). A comment to the paper by Waltman et al., Scientometrics, 87, 467–481, 2011. Scientometrics, 88(3), 1011-1016. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0424-8

Paz, M. A. L., & Avecillas, M. E. A. (2021). Indicadores bibliométricos: origen, definición y aplicaciones científicas en el Ecuador. Espíritu Emprendedor TES, 5(1), 130-153. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33970/eetes.v5.n1.2021.253

Ramos, M.E., Gibaja-Romero, D.-E., Ochoa, S.A., 2020. Gender inequality and gender-based poverty in Mexico. Heliyon 6(1), e03322. https://doi.org/10.1016/j. heliyon.2020.e03322. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e03322

Rey-Martí, A., Ribeiro-Soriano, D., & Palacios-Marqués, D. (2016). A bibliometric analysis of social entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Research, 69(5), 1651-1655. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.10.033

Riegle-Crumb, C., King, B., & Irizarry, Y. (2019). Does STEM stand out? Examining racial/ethnic gaps in persistence across postsecondary fields. Educational Researcher, 48(3), 133-144. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X19831006

Roseboom, T. J. (2020). Why achieving gender equality is of fundamental importance to improve the health and well-being of future generations: A DOHaD perspective. Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 11(2), 101-104. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S2040174419000734

Ruhanen, L., Weiler, B., Moyle, B. D., & McLennan, C. L. J. (2015). Trends and patterns in sustainable tourism research: A 25-year bibliometric analysis. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 23(4), 517-535. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2014.978790

Seguino, S., 2000. Accounting for gender in Asian economic growth. Fem. Econ. 6 (3), 27–58. https://doi.org/10.1080/135457000750020128. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/135457000750020128

Seguino, S., Floro, M.S., 2003. Does gender have any effect on aggregate saving? An empirical analysis. Int. Rev. Appl. Econ 17(2), 147–166. https://doi.org/ 10.1080/0269217032000064026. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0269217032000064026

Šubelj, L., Waltman, L., Traag, V., & van Eck, N. J. (2020). Intermediacy of publications. Royal Society open science, 7(1), 190207. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190207

United Nations,1993: Instrument of ratification of 16th December 1983 of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women adopted in 1979 in New York. Recuperado de: Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women | OHCHR

United Nations,2019: United Nations. Recuperado de: Objetivos y metas de desarrollo sostenible - Desarrollo Sostenible (un.org)

United Nations, 2020. Goal 5: Achieve Gender Equality and Empower All Women and Girls. Recuperado de Sustainable Development Goals, UN, New York, US. United Nations: Gender equality and women‘s empowerment. Home - United Nations Sustainable Development

United Nations Development Programme (2015): Sustainable Development Goals | United Nations Development Programme (undp.org)

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Educación e igualdad de género. (2021). Recuperado de: Educación e igualdad de género (unesco.org). Educación e igualdad de género (unesco.org)

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Educación e igualdad de género (2021). Liderar la consecución del ODS 4 – Educación 2030 | UNESCO

Van Bavel, J. (2012). The reversal of gender inequality in education, union formation and fertility in Europe. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, 127-154. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1553/populationyearbook2012s127

Van Eck, N. J., & L. Waltman. 2010. “Software Survey: VOSviewer, a Computer Program for Bibliometric Mapping.” Scientometrics 84 (2): 523–538. doi:10.1007/s11192-009-0146-3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-009-0146-3

Verma, R., Lobos, V., Merigó, J. M., Cancino, C., & Sienz, J. (2020). Forty years of Applied Mathematical Modelling: A bibliometric study. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 89 (2), 1177-1197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2020.07.004. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2020.07.004

Wood, R., & Ramirez, M. D. (2018). Exploring the microfoundations of the gender equality peace hypothesis. International Studies Review, 20(3), 345-367. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/vix016

Downloads

Published

2022-12-23

How to Cite

Santos-Rojo, C. (2022). Female empowerment and education: a bibliometric analysis. HUMAN REVIEW. International Humanities Review / Revista Internacional De Humanidades, 15(5), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.37467/revhuman.v11.4301

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 5 (2022): Monograph: "Formulas and political discourses of modernity. Towards a new society"

Section

Research Articles (Special Issue)

License

Those authors who publish in this journal accept the following terms:

  1. Authors will keep the moral right of the work and they will transfer the commercial rights.
  2. After 1 year from publication, the work shall thereafter be open access online on our website, but will retain copyright.
  3. In the event that the authors wish to assign an Creative Commons (CC) license, they may request it by writing to publishing@eagora.org