Background:

bibliometric studies have shown gender disparity in science, which puts at considerable risk the achievement of the 5th goal of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, which refers to: "Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”.

Objective:

to characterize the first authors of the EDUMECENTRO journal applying a gender approach.

Methods:

a descriptive research with a quantitative-qualitative approach was carried out at Villa Clara University of Medical Sciences from January to March 2021. Theoretical methods were used: analysis-synthesis, inductive-deductive and historical-logical; empirical: documentary analysis of articles published from 2016 to 2020; and mathematical-statistical for the analysis of the data found.

Results:

among the Cuban authors the female gender predominates, and their figures related to the number of articles published as first authors, the academic degree and the scientific and teaching ranks are higher in them; however, in foreign authors the male gender predominates as the ones who have published the most articles in this journal in the analyzed period.

Conclusions:

the results presented in this research demonstrate the high performance of the Cuban scientific woman, as a result of the social policies of inclusion and gender equality, established by the revolutionary government as a firm principle encouraged since the very triumph of the Revolution. Bibliometric studies that consider the gender approach in their analyze help to eliminate barriers on the invisibility of scientific women.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )