  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.
However, the community has since reoriented its research towards the global
academic circuit. 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.
