Women are underrepresented on the editorial boards of journals in environmental biology and natural resource management

Despite women earning similar numbers of graduate degrees as men in STEM disciplines, they are underrepresented in upper level positions in both academia and industry. Editorial board memberships are an important example of such positions; membership is both a professional honor in recognition of achievement and an opportunity for professional advancement. We surveyed 10 highly regarded journals in environmental biology, natural resource management, and plant sciences to quantify the number of women on their editorial boards and in positions of editorial leadership (i.e., Associate Editors and Editors-in-Chief) from 1985 to 2013. We found that during this time period only 16% of subject editors were women, with more pronounced disparities in positions of editorial leadership. Although the trend was towards improvement over time, there was surprising variation between journals, including those with similar disciplinary foci. While demographic changes in academia may reduce these disparit...

尽管在科学、技术、工程与数学（STEM）学科领域，女性获得研究生学位的比例与男性基本持平，但她们在学术界与工业界的高层职位中占比均偏低。编委会成员职位便是这类高层职位的典型代表；编委身份既是对学术成就的专业认可与荣誉嘉奖，也是推动职业发展的重要契机。我们针对环境生物学、自然资源管理及植物科学领域的10种顶尖学术期刊展开调研，统计了1985年至2013年间其编委会成员及编辑领导岗位（即副编辑与主编）中的女性占比。研究结果显示，在此调研周期内仅16%的学科编辑为女性，而编辑领导岗位的性别差距更为显著。尽管整体呈逐年改善的趋势，但不同期刊间的性别差距仍存在令人意外的差异，即便学科研究方向相近的期刊也未能幸免。尽管学术界的人口结构变化或可缩小这类性别差距……