"Maybe this is just not the place for me:" Gender harassment and discrimination in the geosciences.

ABSTRACT: Rampant gender-based harassment and discrimination are recognized problems that negatively impact efforts to diversify science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. We explored the particularities of this phenomenon in the geosciences, via focus groups conducted at STEM professional society meetings, with the goal of informing interventions specific to the discipline. Using grounded theory analysis, two primary drivers for the persistence and perpetuation of gender-based harassment in the geosciences were identified: a particular history of power dynamics and maintenance of dominant stereotypes, and a pattern of ineffective responses to incidents of harassment and discrimination. Informed by intersectional feminist scholarship by women of color that illustrates how effort

SUBMITTER: Mattheis A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9116675 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature