The Latin-American scientific community has achieved significant progress towards gender parity, with nearly equal representation of women and men scientists. Nevertheless, women continue to be underrepresented in scholarly communication. Throughout the 20th century, Latin America established its academic circuit, focusing on research topics of regional significance. Through an analysis of scientific publications, this article explores the relationship between gender inequalities in science and the integration of Latin-American researchers into the regional and global academic circuits between 1993 and 2022. We find that women are more likely to engage in the regional circuit, while men are more active within the global circuit. This trend is attributed to a thematic alignment between women's research interests and issues specific to Latin America. Furthermore, our results reveal that the mechanisms contributing to gender differences in symbolic capital accumulation vary between circuits. Women's work achieves equal or greater recognition compared to men's within the regional circuit, but generally garners less attention in the global circuit. Our findings suggest that policies aimed at strengthening the regional academic circuit would encourage scientists to address locally relevant topics while simultaneously fostering gender equality in science.

翻译：拉丁美洲科学界在实现性别平等方面取得了显著进展，科学家群体中女性与男性的比例已接近均衡。然而，在学术交流领域，女性代表仍然不足。整个20世纪，拉丁美洲建立了自身的学术圈，重点关注具有区域意义的研究主题。本文通过对科学出版物的分析，探讨了1993年至2022年间科学领域的性别不平等与拉丁美洲研究人员融入区域及全球学术圈之间的关系。我们发现，女性更倾向于参与区域学术圈，而男性在全球学术圈中更为活跃。这一趋势归因于女性的研究兴趣与拉丁美洲特定议题之间的主题契合。此外，我们的研究结果表明，导致象征资本积累性别差异的机制在不同学术圈中存在差异。在区域学术圈内，女性研究成果获得的认可与男性相当甚至更高，但在全球学术圈中通常获得较少关注。我们的研究结果表明，旨在加强区域学术圈的政策将鼓励科学家关注本地相关议题，同时促进科学领域的性别平等。