Michelle Peckham (mp at chb.leeds.ac.uk) writes
> Dear All
> I have been to two smallish meetings recently, where the proportion
> of women attending was about 20% but the proportion of women
> speakers was at 5-10%. This could partly be because more of the
> women attending were junior, but I don't think this is the whole reason.
> I'm trying to find out if this is a common experience.
This is quite common. A test: go through the speaker list of meetings
in the back pages of Cell, science or Nature and count the women's names.
It is not uncommon for some meetings to have none, or only one woman!
The best correlation I have found is that
if there is a woman organizer, there tends to be a higher proportion
of woman speakers.
The same sort of problem is apparent in seminars. If your insitution/
dept routinely hosts outside seminar speakers, what proportion are women?
--
-susan
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