Why this film matters
Glaciers are vanishing at unprecedented rates. Anti-DEI backlash and climate denialism are rising across North America.
She Measures the Earth stands at this critical intersection—where science, representation, and resistance meet.
It’s a story of women leading on the front lines of climate change, reclaiming space in science, and reshaping the narrative with resilience, care, and hope.
“Women remain a minority in all 19 academic fields studied. Physics, geology, and mathematics have the lowest participation at ~14% of papers authored by women, while psychology has the highest at ~39%. Women are significantly underrepresented in top-ranking positions (top 10% or higher) across all fields and metrics (productivity, citations, and co-authorship), revealing persistent structural barriers to advancement.”
Figure： Participation of women and men researchers per field.
Each panel shows the proportion of papers with at least one woman or man author across 19 fields (1975–2020), with pSTEM fields (Physics, Geology, Mathematics) showing the lowest women’s participation (~14%) and Psychology showing the highest (~39%). The right panel displays the growth of women’s participation over time, revealing slower gains in pSTEM compared to Social Sciences.
— Adapted from Systematic Comparison of Gender Inequality in Scientific Rankings Across Disciplines (2025),