This week’s BWN Friday Post brings you a Nature article by Clare Watson, discussing gender bias in top science awards.

Read the full article here.

BWN also tracks the percentage of women scientists who are awarded neuroscience awards. You can view the visualisation here (2021 release will be posted soon).

This week’s BWN Friday Post highlights 6 short talks from the 2021 APS Virtual Convention on the topic of combating stereotypes and bias, given by students and early-career researchers.

Read (or watch) more here.

This week’s BWN Friday Post brings you a Nature article by Alice Popejoy about the problems of having participants self-identify race and ethnicity using checkboxes.

Read the article here.

This week, we bring you an article by Tiziana Metitieri and Sonia Mele who takes us through time; from the stories of pioneer women neuroscientists, to outlining the initiatives that are in place to raise awareness of existing gender bias, to highlighting the work that still needs to be done.

Read the full article here.

Today’s BWN Friday post brings you two reports, a year apart, on how women are missing from the COVID-19 decision-making table.

A year ago, in 2020: Out of 115 COVID-19 task forces from 87 countries, 81% were headed up by men, with gender parity among membership at 3.5%.
Read the full commentary from BMJ Global Health here.

A year later, now, in 2021: There are 334 task forces globally, with 81% still headed by men, with gender parity among membership at 4%.
View the UNDP’s living database, COVID-19 Global Gender Response Tracker, here.

“How different are men and women’s brains? The question has been explored for decades, but a new study led by Rosalind Franklin University neuroscientist Lise Eliot is the first to coalesce this wide-ranging research into a single mega-synthesis. And the answer is: hardly at all.”

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This week’s BWN Friday Post highlights a recent study by Eliot and colleagues investigating differences between male and female brains, published in Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews.

Read the full paper here.

This week’s BWN Friday Post is a paper published in Nature Neuroscience investigating the prevalence of gender imbalance in citations.

This week’s BWN Friday Post is from Stories of Women in Neuroscience. Dr. Gina Poe shares her research on interplay between memory and sleep, and her experience of mentoring underrepresented trainees in STEM.

This week’s BWN Friday post is announcing the virtual conference on “Gender Roles and their Impact in Academia”.

This week’s BWN Friday post is the FoVea Speaker List. From their website, “The FoVea Speaker List, funded by the NSF, is intended to increase the number of women invited to give talks at conferences and other academic events and more generally increase the visibility of female vision scientists. We especially encourage women of all underrepresented groups to add their names to the list.”