Gender and conservation science: Men continue to out‐publish women at the world's largest environmental conservation non‐profit organization
Conservation Science and Practice
; 4(8), 2022.
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in English
| ProQuest Central | ID: covidwho-1973594
ABSTRACT
The biodiversity and climate crises require diverse solutions, yet peer reviewed literature is dominated by men from the Global North. The Nature Conservancy (TNC), as one of the world's largest conservation non‐profit organizations, provides a case study to better understand how women publish relative to men in conservation science. By examining all papers from Web of Science with at least one TNC author (1968–2019), we found that women at TNC are underrepresented only 36% of authors were women, just 31% of all first authorships were women, and 24% of last authorships were women. Women in the Global South were the least represented group, making up less than 2% of all TNC authorships. By comparison seven individual men in the Global North comprised 9% of all TNC authorships. Encouragingly, the total number of women publishing at TNC has improved over the decades;however, the proportion of women to men remains below gender parity, and the proportion of women from Global South remains consistently below 3%. These results align with overall trends in conservation and science, and we provide recommendations for the global conservation science community on how to address this enduring and significant issue in publishing.
Conservation; climate; diversity; environment; gender; global south; publication; science; the nature conservancy; women; Nature conservation; Biodiversity; Developing countries--LDCs; Climate change; COVID-19; Men; Citation indexes; Publications; Wildlife conservation; Conservation organizations; Publishing; Multiculturalism & pluralism; Nonprofit organizations; Asia; United States--US; Africa
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English
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Conservation Science and Practice
Year:
2022
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