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Global Power Disparities and Gender Inequality
Feminist glaciology builds on feminist post-colonial science studies and feminist political ecology to understand how gender power and inequality are embedded in systems of scientific domination. Power structures maintain glaciology as the discipline concentrated in the wealthy developed world often termed a global north would generally weak institutional representation from the developing world or indigenous communities. Feminist approach opens up marginalized knowledge and exposes how larger structures of domination have worked historically to suppress certain voices it reveals how people across the planet have been living with glaciers for centuries and have produced wide ranges of glaciological knowledge folk glaciology that is rarely recognized within modern glaciology.