Equality and Equity in Latin American Science and Technology

Abstract

This study introduces the paper of this issue entitled, Equality and Equity in Latin American Science and Technology. The articles involved analyze the mechanisms through which gender discrimination operates in the institutionalization and professiolnalization of science and technology in some Latin American countries. In spite of the diversity of countries, institutions, disciplines and focuses, all the works coincice in their interest to account women's exclusion, their motives and the strategies that would allow increasing women presence in order to achieve a full equity and equality in science and technology. The articles presented offer an unique overview of the situation of women in science and technology in those countries and several scientific and technological areas.

Women in Latin American science: gender parity in the twenty-first century and prospects for a post-war Colombia

“…Regardless of Latin America's relatively good performance in global indexes of gender parity in science, Latin American women researchers still face many challenges when pursuing a career in science (Daza and Pérez-Bustos 2008;Valentova et al 2017; Franco-Orozco and Franco-Orozco 2018). Efforts to study gender parity in science in Latin America have shown a pervasive problem deepened by Latino cultural stereotypes (Pérez-Sedeño and Gómez 2008;Bonder 2015;Bernal et al 2019). Within the Latin American context, over the last couple of decades most of the scientific output was produced by five countries: Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Colombia (Scimago 2018).…”