Approximation to production and leadership of women in Spanish geography

The article presents the panorama of women representation in Spanish geography through the analysis of different indicators of scientific production (articles, books, and book chapters) and leadership (head of research groups, presence on scientific committees of journals and coordination of books). The study is fundamentally based on the exploitation of information from the Dialnet bibliographic portal. The analysis of leadership has been complemented with other sources of information related to research group coordination and participation in editorial committees of scientific journals. The results show a greater number of male geographers than female geographers belonging to the three geographic areas (Physical, Regional and Human) though there are slightly differences regarding the institution and the area of knowledge. Results also highlight the greater production of the males and an imbalance panorama regarding leadership.