The increasing role of Indonesian women in soil science: Current &amp; future challenges

Fiantis, Dian; Utami, Sri; Niswati, Ainin; Nurbaity, Anne; Utami, Sri Nuryani Hidayah; Husnain,; Taberina, Sartji; Setyawati, Tri Chandra; Sabrina, T.; Hairiah, Kurniatun; Lanya, Indayati; Rampisela, Agnes; Ginting, Frisa Irawan; Mukhlis, .; Mastur, Sulakhudin; Nurcholis, Mohammad; Anda, Markus; Sukarman,; Mulyanto, Budi; Gusli, Sikstus; Minasny, Budiman

doi:10.1016/j.soisec.2022.100050

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“…Thus, in answer to the opening question: "Gender equality in soil science in Italy: wishful thinking or reality?," although progress has undoubtedly been made in the number of women entering and working in soil science and in their role, a full equality remains an elusive goal and requires further investment in resources and research towards structural and systemic interventions that may successfully lead to a more genderbalanced society. Several authors suggest positive actions to be undertaken in order to actively promote gender equality (Brevik et al, 2021;Dawson et al, 2021;Fiantis et al, 2022), moving towards gender equity, intended as the recognition that different groups of people have different needs and need different resources and efforts to succeed. This includes identifying the obstacles specific to the career success of women and operating to remove them (Vaughan et al, 2019).…”

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“…So far, only a few studies exist. Beside the already mentioned in depth study for the United States (Vaughan et al, 2019), a recent paper deals with gender equality in soil science in Indonesia (Fiantis et al, 2022) connecting the women presence in soil science to soil security. No published data are available about soil science in Italy, although the situation may be slightly different from that of other countries.…”

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Gender Equality in Soil Science in Italy: Wishful Thinking or Reality?

Adamo¹,

Benedetti

Bonifacio

et al. 2022

Span. J. Soil Sci.

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Gender equality in Italian soil science is still far from being a reality although an in-depth investigation has never been carried out. In this work we analyse data on women soil scientists working in public research institutions and universities as well as on those affiliated with soil science societies, considering the changes in gender balance with time. We also recall three female pioneers in Italian soil science who played a key role in both research and scientific societies. An analysis of the impact of papers authored by Italian women is finally provided to gauge the contribution of Italian women to soil science in the last 20 years. The results show that the National Research Institutions reached a more equal balance between genders compared to universities. With regard to scientific societies, we observed a strong lack of female inclusion in the first years of the Italian Soil Science Society, founded in 1952, and the Italian Society of Pedology, even if it was founded much later in 1998. The Italian Society of Agricultural Chemistry was less discriminant, likely due to the presence of different sub-disciplines traditionally more open to women, although always far from real equality. With time, in all societies and research institutions we registered a positive trend with a better balance and a pro-active participation of women. However, we observed a persistent loss of highly qualified women resources from the training phase to the beginning of the career as well as under-representation of women in top roles and in the research centre leaderships. However, when we evaluated the scientific production, no statistical differences appear between women and men at all career levels, confirming the key contribution of women to soil science, despite facing major professional difficulties and disparities. These results show that, notwithstanding the marked progress in the number of women entering and working in Italian soil science, beyond the hard numbers, gender equality still remains a challenge and requires greater investments in resources and research toward structural and systemic interventions that may successfully lead to a more gender-balanced society.

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Gender Equality in Soil Science in Italy: Wishful Thinking or Reality?

Adamo¹,

Benedetti

Bonifacio

et al. 2022

Span. J. Soil Sci.

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“…Only 118 (20.52%) of the 575 members of the House of Representatives are women. Even though women constitute 49.42% of the population in Indonesia, their political representation remains lower than that of men (Fiantis et al, 2022). Only a few women have had access to educational resources and prospects for executive jobs (Rahardjo, 1995).…”

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Portraits of Women in East Java Preacher's Content Sermon

Hasanah

2023

IJISS

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This research is motivated by the high phenomenon on violence against women that inspiring researcher to find more information on the da'wah on women. For research purpose, the researcher chosen videos sermon titled on women and related words on YouTube in 2021 to use on three preachers from East Java, namely: QX, QY, and QZ. This is qualitative research using the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) from Norman Fairclough and theory used to discuss the research result is symbolic violence theory from Pierre Bourdieu. This research found that each preacher has different results: QX showed verbal violence consistently on his sermon contents. There are three typologies of gender inequality found: sexism, misogyny, and negative stigma. Meanwhile QY and QZ only found one typology, that is sexism, but both did not show any consistency in all video sermons. The existence of these texts is driven by three things: the background of preacher, the condition of audiences, and patriarchal culture.

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“…However, studies concerning gender equity in soil science are scarce and very recent. To date, we have found only one relevant international study (Dawson et al, 2021) and a few national studies, in the USA (Vaughan et al, 2019) and Indonesia (Fiantis et al, 2022;Hairiah et al, 2022). Overall, despite the greater number of women occupying postdoctoral and PhD positions in soil science in the last decade, the field remains dominated by men (in relation to senior, permanent positions, success rates in obtaining grants, keynote speakers at soil science conferences, editorial boards, invitations to referee scientific journals) (de Vries, 2017(de Vries, , 2020.…”

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“…The first study concerning the participation of women and men in soil science in Indonesia was also recently published (Fiantis et al, 2022). These researchers found that the number of students enrolled in soil science courses has increased notably in recent years, with the proportion of women reaching, on average, 56% (range 30%-70%).…”

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A Brief Analysis of the Contribution of Women to Soil Science

Díaz-Raviña

Caruncho²

2022

Span. J. Soil Sci.

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Soil science has traditionally been dominated by men, and women remain a minority in this field today. Despite soil science being more recent than other scientific disciplines, many women have made significant contributions to the field, although these are not generally recognized. Recent studies have shown a lack of gender balance and low levels of diversity and inclusion in soil science in several countries worldwide. Although partial and fragmentary, the information provided by the present study of the involvement of women in soil science research reinforces the idea that science should be looked at from a gender perspective in order to promote real equality between men and women. Science and soil science are both the result of historical and cultural events and social context. Science is not neutral: it is social and gendered and always will be, but we can try to make it more inclusive.

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The increasing role of Indonesian women in soil science: Current & future challenges

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Gender Equality in Soil Science in Italy: Wishful Thinking or Reality?

Gender Equality in Soil Science in Italy: Wishful Thinking or Reality?

Portraits of Women in East Java Preacher's Content Sermon

A Brief Analysis of the Contribution of Women to Soil Science

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