What to do When Facing YAMMM (Yet Another Mostly Male Meeting)
STEM Women,
When University Of California (Davis) Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Professor Jonathan Eisen, was scheduled to speak at a…
When University Of California (Davis) Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Professor Jonathan Eisen, was scheduled to speak at a…
We spoke with Professors Rajini Rao and Gabriela Popescu who are outgoing and incoming chairs, respectively, of the Committee…
“…find one or two male biologists to work with (or at least obtain internal peer review from, but better yet as active co-authors…
Women 1.0 at conferences turned out to be a little too unassuming.Efforts to improve gender equity in science often focus on…
The issue of gender equity in science (and other areas of academia) is not new; however, it is remarkably persistent. In a…
The leaky pipeline that leaves women underrepresented in research is undisputed, with numerous studies highlighting the lower…
Not long ago I had the great privilege to be the keynote speaker at the Indiana University Anthropology Graduate Student…
This is part 2 of my 4-part series about studying gender bias in science (See part 1). For studies using existing data, we look…
I just returned from a major conference in my field, where 15% of the speakers (invited and contributed abstracts) were female.
Bias: [mass noun] inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered to be unfair …
Study shows gender bias in science is real. Here’s why it matters by Ilana Yurkiewicz A Rhodes researcher, who felt this may be…
In 2012 Lynne Isbell and her colleagues published a fascinating paper looking at the role of gender in conference proceedings…
Well, this is certainly very interesting especially given my recent obsession with gender biases in scientific conferences (e.g.…