Dear Cryolisters,
8 March is International Women's Day:
"International Women's Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women"
If you have not already read Hulbe et al. (2010), "Women in glaciology, a historical perspective", it is a Journal of Glaciology paper relevant to International Women's Day.
The paper includes brief biographies of:
Fanny Bullock Workman, Elizabeth Parker, Mary Morris Walcott, Louise Arner Boyd, Ida Ogilvie, Ebba Hult De Geer, Kathleen Lonsdale, Eleanora Bliss Knopf, Isobel Moira Dunbar, Jean M. Grove, Cuchlaine A.M. King, Laura Levi, Hilda Richardson, Yang Zhenniang, Lai Zuming, Wu Xiaoling, Almut Iken, Elizabeth M. Morris, Kumiko Goto-Azuma
Abstract below with more details and doi link:
Hulbe et al. (2010):
Christina L. Hulbe, Weili Wang, and Simon Ommanney
Women in glaciology, a historical perspective
Journal of Glaciology , Volume 56 , Issue 200 , 2010 , pp. 944 - 964, doi: https://doi.org/10.3189/002214311796406202
Abstract:
"Women's history in glaciology extends as far back in time as the discipline itself, although their contributions to the scientific discourse have for all of that history been constrained by the sociopolitical contexts of the times. The first Journal of Glaciology paper authored by a woman appeared in 1948, within a year of the founding of the Journal, but it was not until the 1980s that women produced more than a few percent of Journal and Annals of Glaciology papers. Here international perspectives on women's participation in the sciences are presented in order to establish an economic and sociopolitical context for stories of women 'pioneers' in glaciology and a frame in which to discuss women's persistent under-representation relative to men. We find that the experiences of individual glaciologists mirror women's experiences in higher education and the sciences as a whole. The existence of both positive and negative trends in women's participation in the sciences suggests caution in the interpretation of recent positive trends for women's participation in glaciology."
Regards,
Dr Inga Smith
Department of Physics
University of Otago
Dunedin
New Zealand
