Cell Symposia: Big Questions in Neuroscience
Organizers: Katja Brose, Ann Goldstein, Mariela Zirlinger
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio (incl. keynote): 4 Women: 11 Men (26.7%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 24%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
Advances in Motor Learning & Motor Control 2016
Organizers: Maurice Smith and John Krakauer
Total speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 12 Men (14%)**
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 2 Men (33%)
Estimated base rate of females in the field: 35%*
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “motor control” OR “motor learning” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 1, 6, 15, 19 and 20 of 20 results pages.
**Non-plenary speakers were mostly students and post-docs, however the base rate above is calculated for faculty.
7th International Conference on Speech Motor Control
Organizers: Ben Maassen, Hayo Terband, Pascal van Lieshout, Edwin Maas, Aravind Namasivayam, Frits van Brenk
Keynote and invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 13 Men (13%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 37%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords “speech motor control” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all results.
Fifth Biennial Conference On Resting State Brain Connectivity 2016
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 37%
*Method of estimation: given the meeting’s neuroimaging focus we used previous estimates based on an NIH RePORTER search with the terms “(fMRI or MRI or EEG or MEG or ECOG or TMS) and neuro*”
European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology 2017
Organizers: Franco Denes and Carlo Semenza
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 2 Men (0%)
Symposia:
Organizers – 0 Women : 4 Men (0%)
Speakers – 3 Women : 9 Men (25%)
Discussants – 1 Woman : 3 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 47%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “neuropsychology” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 1, 3, 4, 7 and 8 of 8 results pages.
New Frontiers Of Pain Research In The 21st Century
Organizers: Jianguo Gu, Jennifer DeBerry and Jarred Younger
Sponsors: UAB Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, the UAB Department of Psychology and the Comprehensive Neuroscience Center
Speaker gender ratio (incl. keynote speakers): 3 Women : 11 Men (21%)
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 4 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 38%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in pain research
*Method of estimation: Based on previous BWN estimates
Pavlovian Society Meeting 2016
Sponsors: Elsevier
Speaker gender ratio: 8 Women : 25 Men (24%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 25%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “Pavlovian” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 1, 4, 6 and 7 of 9 results pages.
20th International Conference on Biomagnetism (BioMag2016)
General Chairs: Chun Kee Chung and Yong-Ho Lee
Sponsors: see here
Total ratio: 36 Women : 178 Men (16%)
Keynote Speakers: 0 Women : 5 Men (0%)
Scientific Committee: 1 woman : 25 men (4%)
Symposia Organizers: 7 Women : 35 Men (17%)
Symposia Speakers: 28 Women : 113 Men (20%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 37%
*Method of estimation: given the broad reach of the meeting, we searched NIH RePORTER with the terms “(fMRI or MRI or EEG or MEG or ECOG or TMS) and neuro*” and counted the number of women among unique PIs on pages 3, 21, 47 and 65.
2nd International Brain Stimulation Conference
Chairs: Mark S. George and Harold A. Sackeim
Sponsors: Elsevier, and the Journal Brain Stimulation
Invited speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 10 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 34%
*Method of estimation: The conference is aimed at psychiatrists, engineers, cognitive scientists, neurosurgeons, physicists, and everything in between. Nevertheless, for lack of a better source for base rates in the medical profession and in engineering, we searched NIH RePORTER with keywords “brain” AND “stimulation” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 20, 30 and 40 of 66 results pages.
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