Credit Where Due: The Hidden Cost of “Borrowed” Ideas

After one of Nancy's slide decks recently turned up in someone else's presentation without her name or her invitation, she and Questian decided to dig into the many forms plagiarism takes in professional life. From blatant reuse of materials to the murkier territory of borrowed ideas, they explore why credit tends to drift toward higher-status voices; what the research says about how this affects women differently; and why speaking up — for yourself and for each other — is the most important thing you can do about it.

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• (00:00) - Welcome to She Counts
• (02:48) - Slides Reused Story
• (06:00) - Calling It Out Live
• (09:34) - Email Response Process Failure
• (12:06) - Why Credit Matters
• (18:20) - Matilda Effect Explained
• (23:38) - Status and Authority Bias
• (30:16) - Coop Conference Credit Theft
• (42:26) - Social Sanctioning Fear
• (48:51) - Plagiarism Gray Areasp
• (57:17) - Convergent Evolution Explained
• (01:07:29) - Source Confusion Science
• (01:13:25) - Allyship and Amplification
• (01:14:22) - Reflective Questions Wrap
• (01:15:14) - Final Call and Quote

ResourcesStudies and articles cited:

• Nature, 2022 - Women are credited less in science than men - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9352587
• Research Policy, 2024 - Gender homophily - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048733323001798
  articles by women receive fewer forward citations from men
• Nature, 2025 - Smaller attendance in female talks highlights an imbalanced visibility in academia - https://www.nature.com/articles/s44185-025-00100-x
• Psychology of Women Quaterly, 2024 - On the Perception of Men and Women Researchers in Gender Stereotype-Inconsistent Domains - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03616843241236397
• Psychological Bulletin, 2023 - Exploring Gender Bias in Six Key Domains of Academic Science: An Adversarial Collaboration - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15291006231163179
  
  

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