Letter from the Nuclear Security Women Editors for the IJNS and NSW Special Issue: Women in Nuclear Securit

Doty, Kathleen A

Gehrig, Lindsey K

Taylor Hart-McGonigle

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University of Tennessee, Knoxville: Trace

International Journal of Nuclear Security Volume 8 Number 2 NSW Women in Nuclear Special Issue Article 4 10-2023 Letter from the Nuclear Security Women Editors Taylor Hart-McGonigle Lindsey K. Gehrig Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Kathleen A. Doty Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Follow this and additional works at: https://trace.tennessee.edu/ijns Recommended Citation Taylor Hart-McGonigle; Gehrig, Lindsey K.; and Doty, Kathleen A. (2023) "Letter from the Nuclear Security Women Editors," International Journal of Nuclear Security: Vol. 8: No. 2, Article 4. Available at: https://trace.tennessee.edu/ijns/vol8/iss2/4 This article is brought to you freely and openly by Volunteer, Open-access, Library-hosted Journals (VOL Journals), published in partnership with The University of Tennessee (UT) University Libraries. This article has been accepted for inclusion in International Journal of Nuclear Security by an authorized editor. For more information, please visit https://trace.tennessee.edu/ijns. International Journal of Nuclear Security, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2023—IJNS and NSW Special Issue: Women in Nuclear Security DOI:        Letter from the Nuclear Security Women Editors   Taylor Hart-McGonigle, Lindsey Gehrig, and Kathleen A. Doty Nuclear Security Women     The Nuclear Security Women (NSW) initiative was born out of years of witnessing firsthand the gender disparity at nuclear security meetings, facilities, and training events around the world. The initiative was launched in the pandemic era as a means of connecting women working in nuclear security. Through activities such as coffee talks—in which NSW staff meet with international partners for a virtual coffee and discussion about gender equality—the initiative grew into a program that organizes events at global conferences, conducts research on gender equality in the field, and provides professional development opportunities for women.   This special issue of the International Journal of Nuclear Security (IJNS) represents a highlight of our work so far. We were honored to receive more than 50 abstract submissions in response to our call for papers for this issue. Our call for papers was intentionally very broad in scope, but with such an overwhelming response, we were faced with hard choices about the direction in which to take this issue. After much consideration, our team decided not to focus on technical papers. Authors that submitted technical work were invited to submit papers directly to a regular issue of IJNS. We hope that in this way, those women authors will find a publication home for their work, and we will have helped to increase IJNS’ overall submission of technical papers from women authors.  We settled on three themes for this issue. The first addresses the role of women and nuclear security in current events, namely papers related to Ukraine. The second addresses regimes, both those related to gender and nuclear security, and the opportunities and challenges these present. The final section of the issue is dedicated to regional experiences and features papers about gender topics from authors from Africa and the Americas. (We note with disappointment that while we accepted papers 1et al.: Letter from the Nuclear Security Women EditorsInternational Journal of Nuclear Security, Vol. 8, No. 2, 2023—IJNS and NSW Special Issue: Women in Nuclear Security DOI:  also representing Asia and the Middle East, those authors were unable to complete manuscripts in time for this issue. We hope that we will be able to represent even more areas of the world in future issues.)   We are grateful for the collaboration with the staff at IJNS; their dedication to promoting the scholarship of women in the field is inspiring. We are proud to publish this special issue and hope that it is the first of many more opportunities to feature women’s voices in this forum in the future.   Taylor Hart-McGonigle    Lindsey Gehrig    Kathleen A. Doty  2International Journal of Nuclear Security, Vol. 8 [2023], No. 2, Art. 4

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