Women are underrepresented on the editorial boards of journals in environmental biology and natural resource management.
Women are underrepresented on the editorial boards of journals in environmental biology and natural resource management.
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作者：
Cho AH;Johnson SA;Schuman CE;Adler JM;Gonzalez O;Graves SJ;Huebner JR;Marchant DB;Rifai SW;Skinner I;Bruna EM
尽管女性在STEM学科中获得的研究生学位数量与男性相似，但她们在学术界和工业界的高层职位中代表性不足。编辑委员会成员是这类职位的一个重要例子;成员资格既是对成就的认可的专业荣誉，也是职业发展的机会。我们调查了环境生物学、自然资源管理和植物科学领域的10种备受推崇的期刊，以量化其编辑委员会和编辑领导职位中的女性人数（即，1985年至2013年担任副编辑和主编。我们发现，在这段时间内，只有16%的主题编辑是女性，在编辑领导职位上的差距更为明显。虽然随着时间的推移，趋势是朝着改善，有令人惊讶的变化之间的期刊，包括那些具有类似的学科重点。虽然随着时间的推移，学术界的人口结构变化可能会减少这些差异，但我们认为期刊应该积极争取编辑委员会的性别平等。这将增加获得董事会成员资格的机会和福利的女性人数，并增加早期职业科学家和学生的榜样和潜在导师的数量。
Despite women earning similar numbers of graduate degrees as men in STEM disciplines, they are underrepresented in upper level positions in both academia and industry. Editorial board memberships are an important example of such positions; membership is both a professional honor in recognition of achievement and an opportunity for professional advancement. We surveyed 10 highly regarded journals in environmental biology, natural resource management, and plant sciences to quantify the number of women on their editorial boards and in positions of editorial leadership (i.e., Associate Editors and Editors-in-Chief) from 1985 to 2013. We found that during this time period only 16% of subject editors were women, with more pronounced disparities in positions of editorial leadership. Although the trend was towards improvement over time, there was surprising variation between journals, including those with similar disciplinary foci. While demographic changes in academia may reduce these disparities over time, we argue journals should proactively strive for gender parity on their editorial boards. This will both increase the number of women afforded the opportunities and benefits that accompany board membership and increase the number of role models and potential mentors for early-career scientists and students.
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影响因子：
4.6
作者：
Addis, E;Villa, P
通讯作者：
Villa, P
DOI：
10.1002/asi.22609
发表时间：
2012-05-01
影响因子：
--
作者：
Cabanac, Guillaume
通讯作者：
Cabanac, Guillaume
DOI：
10.1073/pnas.1211286109
发表时间：
2012-10-09
影响因子：
11.1
作者：
Moss-Racusin, Corinne A.;Dovidio, John F.;Handelsman, Jo
通讯作者：
Handelsman, Jo
影响因子：
3.9
作者：
Mauleon, Elba;Hillan, Laura;Bordons, Maria
通讯作者：
Bordons, Maria
影响因子：
16.8
作者：
Budden, Amber E.;Tregenza, Tom;Lortie, Christopher J.
通讯作者：
Lortie, Christopher J.