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Gender inequity in speaking opportunities at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.

ABSTRACT: Implicit and explicit biases impede the participation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematic (STEM) fields. Across career stages, attending conferences and presenting research are ways to spread scientific results, find job opportunities, and gain awards. Here, we present an analysis by gender of the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting speaking opportunities from 2014 to 2016. We find that women were invited and assigned oral presentations less often than men. However, when we control for career stage, we see similar rates between women and men and women sometimes outperform men. At the same time, women elect for poster presentations more than men. Male primary conveners allocate invited abstracts and oral presentations to women less often and below the proportion of women authors. These results highlight the need to provide equal opportunity to women in speaking roles at scientific conferences as part of the overall effort to advance women in STEM.

SUBMITTER: Ford HL

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5915405 | biostudies-other | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Gender inequity in speaking opportunities at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.

Ford Heather L HL Brick Cameron C Blaufuss Karine K Dekens Petra S PS

Nature communications 20180424 1

Implicit and explicit biases impede the participation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematic (STEM) fields. Across career stages, attending conferences and presenting research are ways to spread scientific results, find job opportunities, and gain awards. Here, we present an analysis by gender of the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting speaking opportunities from 2014 to 2016. We find that women were invited and assigned oral presentations less often than men. However, ...[more]

PMID: 29692409

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Gender inequity in speaking opportunities at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.

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Gender inequity in speaking opportunities at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.

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