Dr. Fernanda Martinez Galvez delivered a colloquium on April 21, 2026 on Inequalities in Argentine Ecology," for a look at how gender and caregiving shape scientific careers in Argentina.

Drawing on a co-authored study of 437 Argentinean ecologists surveyed between March and June 2020, Martinez Galvez argued that the country's "gender parity" at the entry level of public science masks a steeper, slower climb for women. Caregiving and unpaid domestic labor, she noted, fall disproportionately on women, who report fewer uninterrupted working hours, more interruptions when working from home, and lower self-assessed valuations of their own research than their male peers. Women in the study tended to enter scientific careers younger than men yet reached senior ranks later, and researchers of both genders disproportionately named male advisers and referents, particularly in older cohorts. The pandemic-era normalization of home-office work, she cautioned, risks widening these gaps rather than closing them, and she closed her talk with a call for public policies that relieve scientists, especially women, of unpaid caregiving burdens and that elevate the visibility of women's research.

The colloquium drew on the team's published perspective in Forest Ecology and Management, "Academic career in ecology: Effect of gender, caregiving labor, and the working environment".