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…
Promoting STEM Women: How Scientific Societies Can Help
STEM Women,
We spoke with Professors Rajini Rao and Gabriela Popescu who are outgoing and incoming chairs, respectively, of the Committee…
Got Bias? Adventures in Academic Publishing
Mammals Suck... Milk!,
“…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’s Own Behavior Boosts Gender Disparity in Academia
social science space,
Women 1.0 at conferences turned out to be a little too unassuming.Efforts to improve gender equity in science often focus on…
Striving for gender equity in science: Conference participation behaviour contributes to gender disparity in academia
Impact of Social Sciences,
The issue of gender equity in science (and other areas of academia) is not new; however, it is remarkably persistent. In a…
Grassroots initiatives are trying to improve gender balance at conferences
physicsfocus.org,
The leaky pipeline that leaves women underrepresented in research is undisputed, with numerous studies highlighting the lower…
Why have Lady Editors? A true story of balanced gender representation.
Biological ANthropology Developing Investigators Troop,
Saw something, said something: the personal and political collide
Biological ANthropology Developing Investigators Troop,
Not long ago I had the great privilege to be the keynote speaker at the Indiana University Anthropology Graduate Student…
How is gender bias in science studied? II. Learning from existing data
Science, I Choose You!,
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…
Presentations without representation
Tenure, She Wrote,
I just returned from a major conference in my field, where 15% of the speakers (invited and contributed abstracts) were female.
How is gender bias in science studied? I. Surveys and interviews
Science, I Choose You!,
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.
Rhodes Library: Science and Pharmacy Faculties,
Study shows gender bias in science is real. Here’s why it matters by Ilana Yurkiewicz A Rhodes researcher, who felt this may be…
Gender influences in conference participation.
The Drew Lab at Columbia University,
In 2012 Lynne Isbell and her colleagues published a fascinating paper looking at the role of gender in conference proceedings…
A scientific study of gender bias in scientific conferences: new #PLoS One paper from #UCDavis
The Tree of Life,
Well, this is certainly very interesting especially given my recent obsession with gender biases in scientific conferences (e.g.…