Women of the Wild
Challenging Gender Disparities in Field Stations and Marine Laboratories
Women of the Wild
Challenging Gender Disparities in Field Stations and Marine Laboratories
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Field stations and marine laboratories (FSMLs) are sentinels of Earth’s climate, providing scientists with the infrastructure to collect data in otherwise inaccessible areas of the globe. Many FSMLs were built around and continue to perpetuate male-dominated institutional ideologies, making it difficult for women, BIPOC, and those with intersecting identities to progress, succeed, and thrive. In a collaborative effort across field ecologists and communication scholars working with women navigating these spaces, this book’s priorities are to: 1) document the gender history of FSMLs; 2) provide a context for the current organizational culture and understand the current communication climate dynamics; 3) explore current barriers to leadership, success, and factors that contribute to positive communication climates in FSMLs, and 4) explore strategies, programs, and interventions for supporting women’s leadership roles, as well as, to develop best practices for policy, resource allocation, and field station design to better support and increase women’s leadership roles in FSMLs.
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Part I: Setting the Stage of FSMLs
Chapter 1: Defining the Role and Value of FSMLs by Victoria McDermott, Jennifer Gee, and Amy R. May
Chapter 2: The Isthmus by Sylvia Torti
Part II: Experiences in the Field
Chapter 3: “Brush your hair, apply for every grant you can, get laid as often as possible”: Women's Muted Experiences Conducting Scientific Research in the Tropics by Victoria McDermott
Chapter 4: Make the Approach and Get the Data: Challenges, Teamwork, and Cultures of Support for Women Who Are Scientists and Parents at Field Stations and Marine Labs by Diane Debinski
Chapter 5: Experiences of a Female Leader at Field Stations and Marine Labs by Sarah D. Oktay
Chapter 6: From the Standpoint of Women FSML Directors: Communication, Leadership, and the Impact of Gender Norms by Victoria McDermott and Amy R. May
Chapter 7: Identifying Factors that Contribute to Positive and Negative Student Exp
Product details
| Published | Mar 03 2022 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 334 |
| ISBN | 9781793629418 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Illustrations | 15 b/w illustrations; 6 tables; |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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