The Presence of Female Conveners Correlates with a Higher Proportion of Female Speakers at Scientific Symposia

We investigated the hypothesis that the gender of conveners at scientific meetings influenced the gender distribution of invited speakers. Analysis of 460 symposia involving 1,845 speakers in two large meetings sponsored by the American Society for Microbiology revealed that having at least one woma...

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Autores principales: Casadevall, Arturo, Handelsman, Jo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society of Microbiology 2014
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Observation
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3884059/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24399856
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00846-13
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description We investigated the hypothesis that the gender of conveners at scientific meetings influenced the gender distribution of invited speakers. Analysis of 460 symposia involving 1,845 speakers in two large meetings sponsored by the American Society for Microbiology revealed that having at least one woman member of the convening team correlated with a significantly higher proportion of invited female speakers and reduced the likelihood of an all-male symposium roster. Our results suggest that inclusion of more women as conveners may increase the proportion of women among invited speakers at scientific meetings.
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spelling pubmed-38840592014-01-14 The Presence of Female Conveners Correlates with a Higher Proportion of Female Speakers at Scientific Symposia Casadevall, Arturo Handelsman, Jo mBio Observation We investigated the hypothesis that the gender of conveners at scientific meetings influenced the gender distribution of invited speakers. Analysis of 460 symposia involving 1,845 speakers in two large meetings sponsored by the American Society for Microbiology revealed that having at least one woman member of the convening team correlated with a significantly higher proportion of invited female speakers and reduced the likelihood of an all-male symposium roster. Our results suggest that inclusion of more women as conveners may increase the proportion of women among invited speakers at scientific meetings. American Society of Microbiology 2014-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3884059/ /pubmed/24399856 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00846-13 Text en Copyright © 2014 Casadevall and Handelsman. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/) , which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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