Perceiving gendered organizations: positions, power, and gender in geoscience (just published in JGSG!)
- iapgeoethics
- 4 days ago
- 2 min read
The Journal of Geoethics and Social Geoscience (JGSG) published a new open access article of the in the volume 1, issue 1, 2025.
We remind you that JGSG is diamond open access and is supported by the IAPG, the IUGS Commission on Geoethics and the CIPSH Chair on Geoethics. No Article Processing Charge (APC) is requested to authors and no fee to readers.
This new article can be cited as follows:
Heimann, S. (2025). Perceiving gendered organizations: positions, power, and gender in geoscience. Journal of Geoethics and Social Geosciences, 1(1), 1–34. https://doi.org/10.13127/jgsg-48
Abstract:
This article explores inequality in European geoscience organizations through the perspective of geoscience women professionals and their perception of gendered positions in academia and industry. Male dominance in geoscience organizations has previously been demonstrated within US and Canadian organizations, often in relation to gender inequality in STEM subjects and rarely in relation to the specific ideals and practices that shape geoscience. The current study contributes a European context, as well as a comparative approach to gendered positions in the organizational contexts of academia and industry. Using participatory research methods and visualization techniques, the study collected 42 organizational maps of academic and industry organizations in 16 European countries. The results reveal perceptions of gender inequality in academic and industrial geoscience organizations through women’s limited access to positions of power, i.e. women geoscience professionals perceived underrepresentation in senior management positions in industry and in senior positions in academic organizations. Within the growing demand for geoscience expertise in the green transition, the results raise questions about what the perceived structures of gender inequality mean in relation to sustainable employment and good working conditions in European geoscience.
Keywords:
Organization, Geoscience, Gender, Power, Positions
About the author:
Samuel Heimann (Department of Social Sciences, Technology and Arts, Division of Humans and Technology, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden).
PhD student in Human Work Science/Sociology of Work and Organizations. His research interest concerns gender, work and organization, especially within mining and industrial organizations. Previous research published in Gender, Work and organization, The Extractive Industries and Society and Mineral economics.
Read this article for free:
Journal of Geoethics and Social Geosciences:
Articles published in the Journal of Geoethics and Social Geosciences:
IAPG - International Association for Promoting Geoethics:
IUGS - Commission on Geoethics:
CIPSH - Chair on Geoethics:
Comments