News and Media: GeoFIDE
Geosciences For Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity
News / Media
Film: Picture a Scientist (2020) documentary about the experience of women in STEM. Featuring Dr. Jane Willenbring, a prominent geoscientist, who experienced egregious harassment by her graduate advisor during field work.
Journal Articles
- Where Are the Women? Accounting for Discrepancies in Female Doctorates in U.S. Geography
By David H. Kaplan and Jennifer E. Mapes (2016) in The Professional Geographer 68 (3): 427-435 - 10 Inspiring Women Who Are Contributing to the Field of Geography
By Christopher Ewell (2015), American Geographical Society - Women in geography
By Noel Castree, Rob Kitchin, and Alisdair Rogers (2013), in A Dictionary of Human Geography, Oxford University Press - How Geography Paved the Way for Women in Science and Cultivated the Values of American Democracy
By Maria Popova (2013) - 'Practically All the Geographers Were Women’
By Janice Monk (2008), presentation at Society of Woman Geographers Triennial
On the Web
The Woman Who Transformed How We Teach Geography By Leila McNeill (2018) - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science/woman-who-transformed-how-we-teach-geography-180967859/
Pioneering woman who mapped the ocean floor -
MapLab: When Women Map the World -
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-14/maplab-when-women-map-the-world
Meet Dr. Gladys West, the hidden figure behind your phone’s GPS -
City of Women -
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/city-of-women?
Who Maps the World? -
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-14/why-equitable-maps-are-more-accurate-and-humane
Mapping the Sexism of City Street Names -