Gender and science or gender and knowledge production have been issues of much discussion around the world. In order to examine women’s participation in Botanical Science and to verify if some kind of gender bias exists ...

From the observation that the segregation of women in scientific production throughout history represents a problem regarding the exclusion of a non-androcentric perspective in different scientific fields, a question emerged ...

Studies estimate that gender-diverse persons represent 0.1 to 2% of populations investigated, but no such assessment was performed in Latin America. In a representative sample of Brazil’s adult population (n = 6000), we ...

Informal investment represents one of the main sources to finance early-stage new ventures. Despite the progressive participation of women in informal investment, little is known about the characteristics of female informal ...

Informal investment represents one of the main sources to finance early-stage new ventures. Despite the progressive participation of women in informal investment, little is known about the characteristics of female informal ...

Introduction: To address the phenomenon of gender-based violence in Latin America and the Caribbean is an issue of epic proportion that reflects the unequal power dynamics created within the binary gender system and is ...

There is general concern in Trinidad and Tobago and the wider English-speaking Caribbean about the gender differential in performance on regional and national examinations. Previous studies had shown boys not performing ...

Despite an increase in the participation of women in scientific publications, a gender gap persists with a predominantly male authorship, especially in high-impact factor journals. Similarly, there is a lower proportion ...