Examining Diversity Inequities in Fisheries Science: A Call to Action

Reeling Them In: Initial Insight into the Factors Affecting Presentation Attendance at American Fisheries Society Meetings

“…Many factors explained relatively little variation in attendance (Figure ). We found that presenter gender was the least important variable for explaining variation in attendance, even though males dominated the conference and fisheries remains a male‐dominated profession (Arismendi and Penaluna ). Twitter score was also unimportant, probably because only ~ 4% of presentations were tweeted.…”

Diversity and Inclusion in Conservation: A Proposal for a Marine Diversity Network

“…By all measures, low workforce diversity is rampant in conservation (Taylor, 2014), fisheries (Arismendi and Penaluna, 2016), forestry (Kern et al, 2015), and climate (Pearson and Schuldt, 2014) sciences within academic institutions and organizations founded or based in North America and Europe. These fields, like many others in science, suffer from a diversity crisis (Pearson and Schuldt, 2014).…”

“…These fields, like many others in science, suffer from a diversity crisis (Pearson and Schuldt, 2014). Most attention to the problem-and progress-to date has focused on issues surrounding gender inequality (e.g., Steinpreis et al, 1999;Murphy et al, 2007;Ceci and Williams, 2011;Martin, 2012;Moss-Racusin et al, 2012;Cho et al, 2014;Reuben et al, 2014;Taylor, 2014;Conti and Visentin, 2015;Kern et al, 2015;Arismendi and Penaluna, 2016). But there is also a paucity of representation by people from different races and ethnicities (Ginther et al, 2011;Pearson and Schuldt, 2014;Taylor, 2014;Arismendi and Penaluna, 2016), socioeconomic backgrounds (Taylor, 2014;Laurison and Friedman, 2016), geographic regions (Burgman et al, 2015;Meijaard et al, 2015), and other groupings.…”

Theme 2: Status of Diversity in the Fisheries Profession: Demographics

“…Participation by race or ethnicity in the U.S. fisheries science workforce by region (Arismendi and Penaluna ).…”

“…Women constitute 50% of the population graduating with a degree in biological sciences (Oregon State University ), a statistic that is not reflected in hiring or employment rates. Despite fairly equal graduation rates, employment positions in both academia and in federal fisheries and science careers show that the vast majority—around 74%—are held by men (Arismendi and Penaluna ). When graduation demographics and employment rates were examined from a racial and ethnic diversity perspective, the findings indicated an even greater divide in which, “only roughly 10% of all fisheries science, manager, and faculty positions were occupied by minorities” (Oregon State University, ).…”