International Women’s Day was established to celebrate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. It is a day to recognize the progress made towards gender equality, while also acknowledging the work that still needs to be done. At ScienceOpen, we are committed to celebrating International Women’s Day by honouring the spirit of empowerment, equality, and inclusivity and promoting scientific research related to the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5: Gender Equality. 

“SDG5 aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls” 

This International Women’s Day, we would like to shine a spotlight on the wealth of research on ScienceOpen that is dedicated to addressing issues faced by women globally and committed to advancing gender equality worldwide. 

Research on gender equality on ScienceOpen 

Hogrefe SDG5 

Hogrefe is the leading scientific publisher for psychology, psychiatry, and mental health in Europe. Hogrefe’s journals’ portfolio consists of high quality, peer-reviewed articles in English and German. The Hogrefe: SDG 5 Gender Equality collection on ScienceOpen highlights research from Hogrefe on topics such as gender discrimination and gender-based violence, gender fairness, and feminism. 

• Mass Trauma and Long-Term Psychological Distress: The Role of Economic Deprivation Among Older Widows in Sri Lanka 
• Affective-Semiotic Dynamics of the Transition to Motherhood in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic 
• Kick-Starting Female Careers: Attracting Women to Entrepreneurship Programs 

Emerald: Fairer Society   

Emerald Publishing is one of the world’s leading digital-first publishers, commissioning, curating and showcasing research that can make a real difference. Emerald: Fairer Society is a curated collection of research from Emerald related to SDGs 1, 2, 5, 8, 10 and 16, promoting efforts towards a society that is just, inclusive and embracing of all. Below is a selection of research from the collection related to gender and women’s issues: 

• Vulnerability to domestic physical violence among married women in Indonesia 
• Understanding gender dimensions of climate-smart agriculture adoption in disaster-prone smallholder farming communities in Malawi and Zambia 
• Promoting gender equality in a challenging environment: The case of Scandinavian subsidiaries in Japan 

Pluto Journals   

Pluto Journals is an independent and international journal publisher in the field of the social sciences. Producing world-class journals that are at the cutting edge of humanities research today, the journals featured in the Pluto Journals super collection are a great source of information for gender equality and SDG5-related topics: 

• Gender inequality in the labour market of Ukraine: Challenges for the future 
• Transformation of Community-based Research in Higher Education: An African Decolonial Feminist Revisiting of the “Coloured Women” Article 
• Reclaiming power: Women loving women and intimate partner violence in Guyana 

Jaypee 

Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers is South Asia’s largest and fastest-growing medical publisher that supports the medical community as an education resource from the undergraduate to practitioner level. Last year, Jaypee and ScienceOpen collaborated to create several topical collections on the platform, including Advocacy for Maternal and Women’s Health. This collection compiles and highlights relevant research related to obstetrics and women’s health in general. 

• Applied Genomics in Obstetrics and Gynecology 
• Association between Karyotype, Puberty Stage, and Volume of Reproductive Organs in Turner Syndrome: The First Transrectal Sonography Study in Indonesia 
• Knowledge, Attitude and Practices about Exclusive Breastfeeding in Grandmothers of Newborns – An Observational Study 

Books on gender equality 

AEUP 

The Association for European University Presses (AEUP) is an organization that connects university presses across Europe. The AEUP DOI-based book catalogue on ScienceOpen which showcases important European scholarship from over 50 university presses spread across 18 European countries. 

Below is a selection of relevant books from AEUP member presses on women in history, arts and society: 

• Gender and Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science: Agnes Block, Botany, and Networks in the Dutch Seventeenth Century 
• Non-Elite Women’s Networks Across the Early Modern World 
• Women Filmmakers in Sinophone World Cinema 

African Minds 

African Minds is an open access, not-for-profit, publisher of scholarly books. African Minds publishes predominantly in the social sciences and its authors are typically African academics or those with a close affinity with the continent. African Minds offers innovative approaches to fostering access, openness and debate in the pursuit of growing and deepening the African knowledge base. 

Explore book titles related to gender equality and the struggle for social justice: 

• Positioning Diversity in Kenyan Schools: Teaching in the Face of Inequality and Discrimination 
• The Next Generation of Scientists in Africa 
• Out of Place : An Autoethnography of Postcolonial Citizenship 

Women and Girls in Science 

Outside of curated publisher-edited collections, ScienceOpen also gives its users the ability to create and manage their own themed research collections. Our CEO Stephanie Dawson has put together some research articles on the topic of women in science in the Women in Science researcher collection.

Explore some of the newest additions to the collection:

• Developing a diversity, equity and inclusion compass to guide scientific capacity strengthening efforts in Africa 
• Brazilian women in Bioinformatics: Challenges and opportunities 
• The role of environment on women’s perception about their STEM studies: observations from a Global South country 

The collection is continuously being updated with new research, so be sure to check it regularly!