more-inFor many years, the under-representation of women in science has vexed science policymakers across the world. The concern now is that the problem may also affect climate change-related studies. ‘Climate for women in climate science: Women scientists and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’, a study published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has looked at the question of gender in the authorship of reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s most authoritative compendium on the science of climate change. Sixty per cent of women reported that discussions and writing of IPCC reports were controlled by a few scientists, and half reported that the workload was not equally distributed. Climate science, it follows, can only be the wiser with newer perspectives.

Source: The Hindu February 12, 2018 20:00 UTC