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Resilient women scientists and the COVID-19 pandemic: an OWSD analysis

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  • Tonya Blowers

    (Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD))

  • Erin Johnson

    (Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD))

  • Jennifer Thomson

    (University of Cape Town (UCT))

Abstract
Pandemics tend to have disruptive and uneven impacts on different population subgroups and across sectors. This paper investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women scientists from the Global South to understand their resilience and adaptation strategies, utilising data from a survey of women in STEM fields, who are members of the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD). We employ a mixed-methods approach to examine the effects of the pandemic on the respondents’ work and employment, home and family lives, and mental well-being. We find that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the requirement to change practices in academia, indeed in all spheres of social and economic life, have provided a unique and most timely opportunity to observe, evaluate and revise what might be termed the current gender-limited environment for career progression for researchers in STEM subjects and instead create a gender-transformative environment that will have a profound effect on how scientific research is managed and undertaken in the world.

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  • Tonya Blowers & Erin Johnson & Jennifer Thomson, 2022. "Resilient women scientists and the COVID-19 pandemic: an OWSD analysis," Economia Politica: Journal of Analytical and Institutional Economics, Springer;Fondazione Edison, vol. 39(1), pages 225-248, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:epolit:v:39:y:2022:i:1:d:10.1007_s40888-021-00256-2
    DOI: 10.1007/s40888-021-00256-2
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    1. Rousseau, Ronald & Garcia-Zorita, Carlos & Sanz-Casado, Elías, 2023. "Publications during COVID-19 times: An unexpected overall increase," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 17(4).

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    Keywords

    Gender Inequality; Covid-19; OWSD; Resilience; STEM;
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    JEL classification:

    • A20 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - General
    • I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

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