Empowering Latina scientists

Bernal, Ximena E.; Rojas, Bibiana; Pinto-E, María Alejandra; Mendoza-Henao, Angela M.; Herrera-Montes, Adriana; Herrera-Montes, María Isabel; Franco, Andrea del Pilar Cáceres; signatories,

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“…Regardless of Latin America's relatively good performance in global indexes of gender parity in science, Latin American women researchers still face many challenges when pursuing a career in science (Daza and Pérez-Bustos 2008;Valentova et al 2017; Franco-Orozco and Franco-Orozco 2018). Efforts to study gender parity in science in Latin America have shown a pervasive problem deepened by Latino cultural stereotypes (Pérez-Sedeño and Gómez 2008;Bonder 2015;Bernal et al 2019). Within the Latin American context, over the last couple of decades most of the scientific output was produced by five countries: Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Colombia (Scimago 2018).…”

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Women in Latin American science: gender parity in the twenty-first century and prospects for a post-war Colombia

López‐Aguirre

2019

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society

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The aim of this study was to evaluate the status of gender parity in science in Colombia throughout the twenty-first century. Data were decomposed by research area, researcher rank level and academic level. Gender disparity was also estimated for changes in average age, access to scholarships for postgraduate studies, and number of doctoral graduates. Using logistic function modeling, temporal projections into the future were performed in order to estimate how long could it take to reach gender parity. Medical and health science is the only field to have reached gender parity, while also showing a steady decrease in women's representation across time. On the other hand, engineering, humanities and natural sciences had the lowest percentages of women's representation. Women researchers showed a decreasing presence as they move upward to more senior levels, exemplifying the "leaky-pipeline phenomenon" common in science. Possible drivers of these results are analyzed, suggesting that a combination of lack of research funding, insufficient legal framework, pre-existing biases, and poor protection of women's rights inhibits women's participation in science. It is estimated that, without any action to change current trends, it could take between 10 (humanities) and 150 (engineering) years to reach gender parity across all research areas. Mulheres na ciência latino-americana: paridade de gênero no século 21 e perspectivas de uma Colômbia do pós-guerra RESUMO O objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar o status da paridade de gênero na ciência na Colômbia ao longo do século XXI. Os dados foram decompostos por área de pesquisa, nível de classificação do pesquisador e nível de escolaridade. A disparidade de gênero também foi estimada para mudanças na idade média, acesso a bolsas de estudos de pós-graduação e número de doutorados. Usando a modelagem da função logística, foram realizadas projeções temporais no futuro a fim de estimar quanto tempo levaria para atingir a paridade de gênero. A ciência médica e da saúde é o único campo que atingiram a paridade de gênero, ao

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Women in Latin American science: gender parity in the twenty-first century and prospects for a post-war Colombia

López‐Aguirre

2019

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society

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“…Meanwhile, underrepresented researchers ( e.g ., women, people of color, and LGBTQIA+ researchers) have different barriers to keeping and advancing in a scientific career. For instance, female researchers from Latin American countries deal with the intersection of sexism, colonialism, and racism ( Bernal et al, 2019 ; Valenzuela-Toro & Viglino, 2021 ). Female Latin American scientists develop their careers in countries that invest less in STEM and present a culture that highlights male pride, besides hampering literature access and present language barriers ( Bernal et al, 2019 ; Valenzuela-Toro & Viglino, 2021 ).…”

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Overcoming the gender bias in ecology and evolution: is the double-anonymized peer review an effective pathway over time?

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Liévano‐Latorre

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Male researchers dominate scientific production in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). However, potential mechanisms to avoid this gender imbalance remain poorly explored in STEM, including ecology and evolution areas. In the last decades, changes in the peer-review process towards double-anonymized (DA) have increased among ecology and evolution (EcoEvo) journals. Using comprehensive data on articles from 18 selected EcoEvo journals with an impact factor >1, we tested the effect of the DA peer-review process in female-leading (i.e., first and senior authors) articles. We tested whether the representation of female-leading authors differs between double and single-anonymized (SA) peer-reviewed journals. Also, we tested if the adoption of the DA by previous SA journals has increased the representativeness of female-leading authors over time. We found that publications led by female authors did not differ between DA and SA journals. Moreover, female-leading articles did not increase after changes from SA to DA peer-review. Tackling female underrepresentation in science is a complex task requiring many interventions. Still, our results highlight that adopting the DA peer-review system alone could be insufficient in fostering gender equality in EcoEvo scientific publications. Ecologists and evolutionists understand how diversity is important to ecosystems’ resilience in facing environmental changes. The question remaining is: why is it so difficult to promote and keep this “diversity” in addition to equity and inclusion in the academic environment? We thus argue that all scientists, mentors, and research centers must be engaged in promoting solutions to gender bias by fostering diversity, inclusion, and affirmative measures.

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“…By establishing solidarity between women as an empowerment strategy, great motivation can be obtained. It is essential to work as a team and share knowledge to grow together, instead of disregarding each other and considering each other as rivals [ 19 , 23 , 24 ]. Thus, to empower women through solidarity, bridges of dialogue must be built, creating interpersonal relationships with other experienced women who can give guidance and advice.…”

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Ten simple rules for empowering women in STEM

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Empowering Latina scientists

Cited by 7 publications

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Women in Latin American science: gender parity in the twenty-first century and prospects for a post-war Colombia

Women in Latin American science: gender parity in the twenty-first century and prospects for a post-war Colombia

Overcoming the gender bias in ecology and evolution: is the double-anonymized peer review an effective pathway over time?

Ten simple rules for empowering women in STEM

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