Diversity begets diversity: A global perspective on gender equality in scientific society leadership.
Diversity begets diversity: A global perspective on gender equality in scientific society leadership.
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0197280
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发表时间：
2018
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Heap SM
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作者：
Potvin DA;Burdfield-Steel E;Potvin JM;Heap SM
研究表明，性别不平等仍然是学术科学中的一个主要问题，然而，学术团体可能是促进女性领导力的有效途径，但却没有得到充分的重视。也就是说，社会成员通常是自我选择的，董事会职位是选举产生的（与机构相比，其流动率很高）——这些特征可能会创造一个有利于性别平等的环境。因此，我们使用信息论方法来研究这种可能性，以量化世界各地动物学会董事会中的性别平等（男性：女性比例）。我们比较了不同的模型来分析社会特征如何预测女性领导者的比例或与之相关，并发现文化模型（包括社会年龄、董事会规模以及社会是否有对外承诺或平等声明）是社会董事会和领导职位性别比例的最具信息量的预测器。该模型比考虑地理位置、研究学科或分类学焦点等因素的其他模型提供的信息更多。虽然女性在社会领导中的比例高于在机构学术领导中的比例，但这一比例仍远未达到平等（约30%）：因此，我们还为社会提供了一份清单和建议，以促进科学领域的全球性别平等。
Research shows that gender inequality is still a major issue in academic science, yet academic societies may serve as underappreciated and effective avenues for promoting female leadership. That is, society membership is often self-selective, and board positions are elected (with a high turnover compared to institutions)—these characteristics, among others, may thus create an environment conducive to gender equality. We therefore investigate this potential using an information-theoretic approach to quantify gender equality (male:female ratios) in zoology society boards around the world. We compare alternative models to analyze how society characteristics might predict or correlate with the proportion of female leaders, and find that a cultural model, including society age, size of board and whether or not a society had an outward commitment or statement of equality, was the most informative predictor for the gender ratio of society boards and leadership positions. This model was more informative than alternatives that considered, for instance, geographic location, discipline of study or taxonomic focus. While women were more highly represented in society leadership than in institutional academic leadership, this representation was still far short of equal (~30%): we thus also provide a checklist and recommendations for societies to contribute to global gender equality in science.
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影响因子：
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作者：
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发表时间：
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影响因子：
11.1
作者：
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