The challenges women encountered and still face in the field (both figuratively and literally) of wildlife science is the subject of the new book “Women in Wildlife Science; Building Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion” that brings the true scope of these challenges to a wider readership, both to explore as well as to present strategies that could lead to improved paradigms ranging from recruitment and education of potential wildlife scientists to career guidance and advancement.
The four women profiled in Prof. Matthew Kelly’s new book are very much deserving of our thanks and praise for all the work they did to make it possible for so many people today still to be able to enjoy some of England’s most important, iconic, and beautiful urban green spaces and wild natural areas.
In recent years, the efforts to recognize and develop the work of women in the sciences have brought to the fore a number of important scientists who a mere fifty years ago may have been left largely unknown, whose work may have been unrecognized or ascribed to another, or whose talents may have been discouraged – or even inhibited – from being developed. And with this, a number of other women whose accomplishments in the past have begun to receive their justly deserved and long overdue recognition.
When I think about all the people I know presently involved in science – either actively working in one of the many disciplines from biology to astronomy, studying to one day do so, or working in an occupation supporting the dissemination of discoveries therein or for the greater widespread understanding thereof – the majority who […]