The Gender Gap project has been funded by the International Science Council (ISC) during the first phase (2017-2019), along with several international science unions. The motive, accomplishments and key findings of the project have been featured by ISC in an online article published in February 2020. The article can be found here.
IUBS is one of the ten partners in the ISC funded project "A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It?". All the findings, conclusions and recommendationf of the project are now available as a downloadable book. The preliminary version of the book is available here. It contains a set of Recommendations for Instructor and Parents, for Local Organizations and for Scientific Unions.
The results of findings of the surveys and studies done via this project were presented in a recent conference held at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy in November 2019. They were also disucssed in a recent event of the celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2020 was co-organized by UNESCO on 7th February 2020.
More information about the book can be found here.
The celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2020 was co-organized by UNESCO with the participation of the International Science Council (ISC) at Paris on 7th February 2020. The invited speakers and participants discussed the issue of gender gap in science, the conclusions of the collaborative global project, “Gender Gap in Science : A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It?” by ISC.
IUBS is one of the partners for a global project.The findings of the project can be found here. These findings were presented in a recent Conference held at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy in November 2019.
L S Shashidhara, the president of IUBS and Catharine Jami of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, participated in the event as speakers.
A detailed news by ISC about the event can be found here.
Event Podcasts made by the International Science Council are available here.
The 'Conference on Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It?' presented the results of a three-year collaborative project (2017-2019), funded by the International Council for Science, of eleven major scientific international unions and organizations including IUBS. Final meeting meeting included findings and acheivements, discussions over the resutls, conclusions and recommendations.
Presentation and reports of the conference are avaialble at: http://indico.ictp.it/event/8731/other-view?view=ictptimetable
Other information related to the project and the conference is available at:
https://gender-gap-in-science.org
https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2019/11/gender-gap-science.aspx
A coordination meeting of the Gender Gap Project will take place on 18 and 19 February 2019 in Berlin at the Einstein Center Digital Future. The partners will give the results of the different tasks and prepare The International Conference that will be held from 4 to 8 November 2019 at ICTP Trieste.
ACT is a H2020 project for supporting “Communities of PrACTice for Accelerating Gender Equality and Institutional Change in Research and Innovation across Europe” running from 2018 to 2021.
We have prepared a short feedback channel for interested practitioners, academics and experts to form part of the ACT Communities of Practice.
The 2018 Global Survey of Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Scientists as been launched on May 1st, 2018. The survey in the project "A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences - How to Measure It, How to Reduce It?" will be open for answers until December 31st 2018. You are welcome to forward this link to the survey to your colleagues, men and women.
Welcome to the Global Survey of Scientists: English
Bienvenue dans l’enquête mondiale destinée aux scientifiques: French
Welcome to the Global Survey of Scientists: Chinese
Welcome to the Global Survey of Scientists: Russian
Bienvenido/a a la Encuesta mundial de científicos y científicas: Spanish
The meeting took place at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and at the Institut Henri Poincaré. Photo: IUBSMembers of the project "A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It?" met in Paris, France, and representatives of the partner unions gathered in Paris on June 11-12 2018. They reflected on the project’s status and discussed the next steps and actions to be taken.
IUBS sent expert to the following workshops to discuss the project "A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It?" and the preparation of the survey Workshop in Taipei, Taiwan, 7-8 November 2017. IUBS supported the participation of Noriko Asumi (Japan) and Tien HuynH (Australia).
IUBS supported the participation of Alejandra Gonzales (Chile) in a workshop in Bogota, Colombia, 22-24 November 2017.
IUBS supported the participation of Dianah Nalwanga (Uganda) and Heather Marco (South Africa) in a workshop in Cape Town, South Africa, 1-2 December 2017.
Participants - Front row (from left): Jean Taylor (ICIAM), Sayara Berg (ICIAM), Danielle Gondard-Cozette (IMU), Mustafa Sozbilir IUPAC), Igle Gledhill IUPAC), Marie-Francoise Ouedraogo (IUM), Anne-Sophie Godfroy (IUHPST), Anita Rampal (IMU), Bétül Tambay (IMU), Ernesto Fernández-Polcuch (UNESCO). • 2nd row: Maria Esteban (ICIAM), Siujatha Ramdorai(IMU), Mei-Hung Chiu (IUPAC), Guadalupe Lozano (Expert), Anathea Brooks (UNESCO), Francesca Primas (IAU), Lucilla Spini (ICSU), Maria Rosaria Dantonio (IAU), Catherine Goldstein (Expert), Merrilyn Goos (IMU), Helena Mihaljevic-Brandt (IMU). • 3rd row: Mark Cesa (IUPAC), Alice Abreu (GenderInSite), Clémence Perronnet (Expert), Nathalie Fomproix (IUBS), Marie-Francoise Roy (IMU), Elena Bagryanskaya (IUPAC), Benedikt Loewe (IUHPST), Bill Barton (IMU). • Back row: Lucía Santamaría (Expert), Lisa Frehill (IUPAC), Silvina Ponce-Dawson (IUPAP), Tonya Blowers (OWSD), Fernanda Arraes Hertelendy (UNESCO), Rachel Ivie (IUPAP).On June 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 2017, partners of the project "A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It?" met in Paris, France, for the first time to discuss project management and related issues.
