The men who feed the world? Putting masculinities on the agenda for crop breeding research for development

cg.contributor.affiliationCornell Universityen
cg.contributor.donorBill & Melinda Gates Foundationen
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1243217en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn2571-581Xen
cg.journalFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systemsen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.actionAreaSystems Transformation
cg.subject.impactAreaGender equality, youth and social inclusion
cg.subject.impactPlatformGender
cg.subject.sdgSDG 5 - Gender equalityen
cg.volume7-2023en
dc.contributor.authorArff Tarjem, Idaen
dc.contributor.authorTufan, Hale Annen
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-26T15:20:30Zen
dc.date.available2024-01-26T15:20:30Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/138615
dc.titleThe men who feed the world? Putting masculinities on the agenda for crop breeding research for developmenten
dcterms.abstractScience, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields that are dominated by men and masculine have historically been shown to lead to poor representation and discrimination of women and gender diverse scientists, managers, and leaders. This in turn negatively impacts inclusive innovation processes and outcomes. We claim that crop breeding is one such field that is undeniably dominated by men, and even masculine, and could therefore harbor the very same dynamics of exclusion. Yet there is a dearth of research systematically investigating how masculinities are performed in the institutions, organizations, cultures, discourses, and practices of crop breeding. In this Perspective piece, we present a theoretically informed hypothesis of crop breeding organizations as representing spaces where masculinities associated with rurality, management, and science and technology come together in ways that may marginalize women and gender diverse individuals, including in intersection with sexuality, race, ethnicity, and disability. In developing this hypothesis, we draw upon theoretical and empirical insights from masculinity studies in rural sociology, management and organization studies, and feminist technoscience studies. We demonstrate how critical men and masculinities studies can help expose masculinities in crop breeding to investigation, discussion, criticism, and change. As we seek to advance equality in and through crop breeding organizations, this framing helps to guide future research with potential to positively impact the culture of crop breeding research.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2023-09-01en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationTarjem IA and Tufan HA (2023) The men who feed the world? Putting masculinities on the agenda for crop breeding research for development. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 7:1243217. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2023.1243217en
dcterms.issued2023-09-01en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherFrontiers Mediaen
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectplant breedingen
dcterms.subjecttrait preferencesen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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