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  • Item type:Publication,
    Older people care increases the gender gap in academia Open PDF 
    (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2025-09-29)
    Vidal-Abarca, María Rosario
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    Martín-López, Berta
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    Sala-Bubaré, Anna
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    Anton-Pardo, María
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    Catalan, Nuria
    Caring for older and for adults with disabilities is nowadays a social challenge for Western societies. However, little research has focused on the role of women as carers of that social group and their personal and professional consequences, particularly in academia. We explore the impact of caring for the older and adults with disabilities on Spanish scholar from a gender perspective. We conducted 36 semi-structured open-ended interviews (24 women, 12 men). Our research finds that, caring for the older and adults with disabilities has costs and implications for scholar on a personal and professional levels, but significantly more for women compared to men. Women often reported more physical and mental health problems than men. In addition, women, reported that their profession was affected by caring for the older people and that they compromised their quality of life mainly in terms of loss of leisure time. Strategies for coping during difficult periods of caregiving differed between genders, whereby women reported reaching out to support networks. At the institutional level, older care is an 'invisible' problem, for which interviewees reported not getting any support from their institutions. The study reveals how caring for older people and adults with disabilities adds yet another role and responsibility to women's dual role as mothers and scholars, leading to "invisible", often unnamed, impacts on their personal and professional lives: the "triple presence". Given that the study was conducted in a specific context (Spanish scientists in the fields of environmental science and sustainability), future studies in other geographical areas will be needed to corroborate current findins.
  • Item type:Publication,
    Gender issues within climate change research: a bibliometric analysis Open PDF 
    (2021)
    Kovaleva, M.
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    Filho, W.L.
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    Borgemeister, C.
    The last decades are recognized as a period when a gender-sensitive perspective being broadly acknowledged by the majority of actors involved in the field of climate change. Existing gender inequalities exacerbated by climate change urge the inclusion of a differentiated female-male approach into research, decision-making processes, adaptation, and mitigation. This paper quantitatively reviews scientific contributions in the gender subfield within climate change research published between 1996-2020 by adapting a bibliometric analysis approach. The literature was extracted from Web of Science, Google Scholar, and World Bank's repositories. The results of the co-occurrence, bibliographic coupling, co-citation, and co-authorship analyses were mapped by using the VOS viewer software. The selection criteria were developed to maximize the thematic coverage of the publications that could be referred to the gender subfield within climate change research. The findings help better understand the overall developments in the gender subfield in terms of discussed topics, authors and institutional collaborations, contributions of international organizations in the capacity of authors, and an amount of grey literature. The review might represent an interest for further studies in consideration of new research topics, geographical focus, compositions of co-authors teams, and be communicated in debates on gender within the climate change context. © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
  • Item type:Publication,
    Gender in sustainability research: Inclusion, intersectionality, and patterns of knowledge production Open PDF 
    (2021)
    Khalikova, V.R.
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    Jin, M.
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    Chopra, S.S.
    This cross-disciplinary study examines gender inclusion and intersectionality in the knowledge production of sustainability research. Building on studies of gender inclusion as essential for quality research, we develop a three-step framework that analyzes the socio-demographic profile of researchers (sustainability by whom?), key research trajectories (sustainability of what?), and beneficiaries of sustainability research (sustainability for whom?). Our methods include a survey and a bibliometric analysis. The survey was administered at the joint conference of the International Society for Industrial Ecology and the International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology in 2017. The survey results show gendered differences in collaboration patterns. The survey results also indicated a good level of gender inclusion among the experts in this field, but the bibliometric analysis showed that gender issues remain marginal in the studies of industrial ecology. In contrast to industrial ecology, we found increasing attention to gender in other areas of sustainability research (climate change, corporate social responsibility, food production, resource management, energy policy, and environmental behavior and education), but even there, “gender” tends to be equated with “women” in traditional gender roles, ignoring the role of intersectionality—the intersection of gender with income, age, and other demographic characteristics. Therefore, this study makes recommendations to approach gender critically, by using theoretical lenses from gender studies scholarship (i.e., gender as a constructed, intersectional, dynamic category). We show how these lenses enable better assessments of the environmental impacts of industrial processes on people of diverse backgrounds in the context of changing patterns of work and consumption. © 2021 by Yale University.
  • Item type:Publication,
    Gender differences among first authors in research focused on the Sustainable Development Goal of Gender Equality Open PDF 
    (2022)
    Shang, Y.
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    Sivertsen, G.
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    Cao, Z.
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    Zhang, L.
    In 2016, the United Nations officially launched the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to address urgent global challenges over the next 15 years. Among the seventeen SDGs, Gender Equality (SDG5) is recognized as important for the achievement of the other 16 goals because gender inequality exists across education, employment opportunities, healthcare facilities, life expectancy, family life, and political participation, thereby holding back the capacity of half of the world’s population to contribute to solutions to the global challenges. This bibliometric study explores gender balance and differences among first authors within SDG5 oriented research during the first 5 years after the implementation of SDG5 in 2016. Compared with other SDGs, the field of SDG5 produces relatively less scientific publications, which feature a dominance of female first authors. Within the field, male and female first authors focus on partly different topics. Potential readers show more interest in publications by female first authors. This investigation highlights the importance of increasing gender diversity in SDG5-related studies, which is helpful for the achievement of sustainable development. © 2022, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Item type:Publication,
    Green Human Resource Management: The Performance of Women Researchers Based on Bibliometric Indicators
    (2023)
    Cosenza, A.C.
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    Santos, G.
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    Barbosa, L.C.F.M.
    Green human resources management (GHRM) is an innovative approach for promoting sustainable thinking and practices within the environment of organizations. GHRM means rethinking basic concepts, strategies, policies, objectives, functions, processes, and activities of human resource management providing benefits for individuals, businesses, and society. It is an emerging field of study with a scientific community in formation. In recent years, much has been discussed about the role of women in science. The objective of the chapter is to contribute to this debate by presenting bibliometric indicators on the role of women in the scientific production of GHRM. The study was based on a survey of publications and other indicators from the Web of Science database. A comparison was made of productivity indicators, impact of scientific production and research time between men and women. Researchers with at least three articles on GHRM were evaluated. Among other results, this study showed that men are the majority, but that women also play an important role in terms of the quantity and quality of publications. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
  • Item type:Publication,
    Women in sustainability research: Examining gender authorship differences in peer-reviewed publications Open PDF 
    (2022)
    Barreiro-Gen, M.
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    Bautista-Puig, N.
    Higher education institutions (HEIs) have been undertaking considerable efforts to embed sustainability into their system; however, there have been limited studies on the incorporation of sustainability into research. In parallel, it has been found that women have an important role in contributing to sustainability since they are more engaged and have a more holistic perspective on sustainability than men. These two phenomena have resulted in limited studies about the contribution of women to sustainability research (i.e., in scientific publishing). A bibliometric analysis of more than 39,000 documents (with 147,090 authorships) was done to fill this gap, focusing on sustainability peer-review publications in Europe between 2015 and 2020. The results show that women's presence in sustainability research has been increasing during the last years; however, there are still few female authorship publications, even in fields that have been traditionally women-oriented. In addition, their publications have been less recognized by the scientific community. The results also show substantial gender differences in terms of author leadership, where female senior researchers are more likely to mentor female junior researchers than men. Female researchers tend to collaborate nationally, but they could improve their international collaboration since this can improve their research and impact. More support should be provided to female researchers to help foster women's sustainability engagement and holistic perspectives, reduce existing negative feedback loops, and increase positive ones. Achieving gender equality is sine qua non in achieving sustainable societies. Copyright © 2022 Barreiro-Gen and Bautista-Puig.