This cross-disciplinary study examines gender inclusion and intersectionality in the knowledge production of sustainability research. Building on studies of gender inclusion as essential for quality research, we develop a three-step framework that analyzes the socio-demographic profile of researchers (sustainability by whom?), key research trajectories (sustainability of what?), and beneficiaries of sustainability research (sustainability for whom?). Our methods include a survey and a bibliometric analysis. The survey was administered at the joint conference of the International Society for Industrial Ecology and the International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology in 2017. The survey results show gendered differences in collaboration patterns. The survey results also indicated a good level of gender inclusion among the experts in this field, but the bibliometric analysis showed that gender issues remain marginal in the studies of industrial ecology. In contrast to industrial ecology, we found increasing attention to gender in other areas of sustainability research (climate change, corporate social responsibility, food production, resource management, energy policy, and environmental behavior and education), but even there, “gender” tends to be equated with “women” in traditional gender roles, ignoring the role of intersectionality—the intersection of gender with income, age, and other demographic characteristics. Therefore, this study makes recommendations to approach gender critically, by using theoretical lenses from gender studies scholarship (i.e., gender as a constructed, intersectional, dynamic category). We show how these lenses enable better assessments of the environmental impacts of industrial processes on people of diverse backgrounds in the context of changing patterns of work and consumption.

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可持续性研究中的性别：包容性、交叉性和知识生产模式

这项跨学科研究考察了可持续性研究知识生产中的性别包容性和交叉性。基于对质量研究必不可少的性别包容性研究，我们开发了一个三步框架，分析研究人员的社会人口特征（谁的可持续性？）、关键研究轨迹（什么的可持续性？）和可持续性研究的受益者（可持续性为谁？）。我们的方法包括调查和文献计量分析。该调查是在 2017 年国际工业生态学会和可持续系统与技术国际研讨会联席会议上进行的。调查结果显示合作模式存在性别差异。调查结果还表明，该领域专家的性别包容水平良好，但文献计量分析表明，性别问题在产业生态学研究中仍然处于边缘地位。与工业生态学相比，我们发现在可持续性研究的其他领域（气候变化、企业社会责任、粮食生产、资源管理、能源政策、环境行为和教育）中对性别的关注越来越多，但即便如此，在传统的性别角色中，“性别”往往等同于“女性”，而忽略了交叉性的作用——性别与收入、年龄和其他人口特征的交叉。因此，本研究通过使用性别研究奖学金的理论视角（即，性别作为一个构建的、交叉的、动态的类别）提出了批判性地处理性别问题的建议。我们展示了这些镜头如何在不断变化的工作和消费模式的背景下更好地评估工业过程对不同背景的人的环境影响。通过使用来自性别研究奖学金的理论视角（即，性别作为一个构建的、交叉的、动态的类别）。我们展示了这些镜头如何在不断变化的工作和消费模式的背景下更好地评估工业过程对不同背景的人的环境影响。通过使用来自性别研究奖学金的理论视角（即，性别作为一个构建的、交叉的、动态的类别）。我们展示了这些镜头如何在不断变化的工作和消费模式的背景下更好地评估工业过程对不同背景的人的环境影响。