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Inequality in science and the case for a new agenda.
Graves, Joseph L; Kearney, Maureen; Barabino, Gilda; Malcom, Shirley.
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  • Graves JL; Department of Biology, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC 27411; gravesjl@ncat.edu.
  • Kearney M; Division of Environmental Biology, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA 22314.
  • Barabino G; Olin College of Engineering, Needham, MA 02492.
  • Malcom S; American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC 20005.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 119(10)2022 03 08.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35210356
The history of the scientific enterprise demonstrates that it has supported gender, identity, and racial inequity. Further, its institutions have allowed discrimination, harassment, and personal harm of racialized persons and women. This has resulted in a suboptimal and demographically narrow research and innovation system, a concomitant limited lens on research agendas, and less effective knowledge translation between science and society. We argue that, to reverse this situation, the scientific community must reexamine its values and then collectively embark upon a moonshot-level new agenda for equity. This new agenda should be based upon the foundational value that scientific research and technological innovation should be prefaced upon progress toward a better world for all of society and that the process of how we conduct research is just as important as the results of research. Such an agenda will attract individuals who have been historically excluded from participation in science, but we will need to engage in substantial work to overcome the longstanding obstacles to their full participation. We highlight the need to implement this new agenda via a coordinated systems approach, recognizing the mutually reinforcing feedback dynamics among all science system components and aligning our equity efforts across them.
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Texto completo: 1 Banco de datos: MEDLINE Idioma: En Revista: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Año: 2022 Tipo del documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Banco de datos: MEDLINE Idioma: En Revista: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Año: 2022 Tipo del documento: Article