S1 for PLOS One: Survey Data on Gender Gap and Media Visibility in Academia

A 2026 study by Béatrice Parguel investigates the impact of media visibility on perceptions of women researchers. The dataset contains survey results from two laboratory experiments with 271 non-academic participants and 129 graduate students. It examines changes in self-efficacy beliefs, perceived expertise, and career attractiveness following exposure to a simulated scientific newsletter.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the relationship between researcher visibility and self-efficacy beliefs based on experimental survey data.
• Investigating gender differences in perceived expertise of academics based on media representation.
• Studying how media exposure influences the attractiveness of academic careers for different demographic groups.

Strengths

• Experimental design with two distinct participant groups (N=271 and N=129).
• Focus on a timely topic in social science: gender representation in academic media.
• Data is shared under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The 10.6 KB file size indicates a very limited scope of data.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Data collected via two laboratory experiments.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-27 17:24:58.