Women Geographers in Business and Government: A Survey

Abstract

A survey of women AAG members in applied geography shows a geographical concentration in the Washington metropolitan area and an employment concentration in the private sector. The typical educational preparation is a master's degree. Job titles reflect the importance of planning, environmental issues, and cartography; cartography is cited as the most helpful career skill. Respondents want the AAG to promote geography and to help graduates in finding careers.

The Environment of Gender and Science: Status and Perspectives of Women and Men in Physical Geography

“…The earlier works of the 1970s and 1980s are critiqued and summarized in Zelinsky et al (1982), who pointed out that the work on the status of women within the geographic profession had been too generalized, but even these general results showed major inequities. Andrews and Moy (1986) conducted a survey of women geographers in business and government to fill a gap in research on non-academic women geographers. Lee (1990) conducted a follow-up study of the status of women geographers, based largely on quantitative analyses of AAG membership data.…”

“…The Role of Quantitative Methodology in Feminist Geographic Research" (Hodge 1995); research in physical geography was not addressed. In fact, no published source has specifically assessed the status or research of women in American physical geography, and few other subdisciplinary studies of geography exist (e.g., Andrews and Moy 1986).…”