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Gender and physical geography in the United Kingdom
Author(s) -
DumaynePeaty Lisa,
Wellens Jane
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4762.1998.tb00064.x
Subject(s) - hierarchy , kingdom , human geography , order (exchange) , five themes of geography , discipline , geography , sociology , social science , historical geography , political science , law , development geography , paleontology , economics , finance , biology
Summary This paper presents the results of a questionnaire survey of all higher education geography departments in the United Kingdom, in order to provide an overview of the current status of women employed in the discipline, particularly female physical geographers. The survey examined the position of female physical geographers of doctoral level and above, in terms of employment status, type of contract, career structure, research and teaching disciplines and successful grant applications. The publication records of female academic staff were also examined. The results of the survey demonstrate that women are under‐represented in physical geography at all levels of the academic hierarchy and that the majority of female physical geography academic staff are below 40 years of age, and employed at the lecturer level on permanent contracts.