Related Articles
- Women academics seem to be submitting fewer papers during coronavirus
- A study on the extent and drivers of gender imbalance in neuroscience reference lists
- SfN’s Virtual Conference on Mitigating Implicit Bias — freely available to SfN members until January 2020, so watch it now!
- NIH reminds conference organizers to watch biases against women etc.
- A study of gender disparities in scientific conference programs
- Congrats, you have an all-male panel!
- BBC discussion: The problem with science for women
- Most of us are biased: Nature (2013) article by Jennifer Raymond with a list of actions that we can take to overcome our biases
- From the Royal Society: A concise animated video explanation of unconscious bias, an article by Uta Frith on the perils of implicit/unconscious bias, and what we can do about it
- Mirages of equality: Progress of women in science at MIT 1971-2009 – An excellent public lecture by Prof. Nancy Hopkins, MIT
- NeuWrite West’s “Inequality in STEM” data dive and blog series
Related Efforts
- Citation Transparency: “adds probabilistic gender info to Google Scholar and PubMed searches”
- Society for Neuroscience Diverse Speakers: a list of organizations that identify speakers from diverse backgrounds
- Women in Neuroscience: “to help you identify and recommend female neuroscientists for conferences, symposia or collaborations”
- The FoVea Speaker List: a database of female vision scientists
- Stories of Women in Neuroscience: a collection of profiles showcasing women in neuroscience
- Gender Avenger: powered by the idea that if enough of us point out the absence of women to enough people in charge, change will happen, and a new norm will emerge
- Anne’s List: a list of female neuroscientists grouped by topic area
- NEURO NEXXT: “A platform for female neuroscientists, initiated by the Collaborative Research Centre 874 (SFB 874) and funded by the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.”
- ALBA Network: an initiative which aims to promote equality and diversity in brain sciences and is supported by funding from FENS, IBRO and SfN
- WomenInBrainstim, a list of female researchers in the field of brain stimulation
- Women in Neuroscience repository, a list of female neuroscientists
- DiversifyEEB: “Highlighting ecologists and evolutionary biologists who are women and/or underrepresented minorities.”
- Society for Neuroscience: increasing Women in Neuroscience toolkits
- Conference diversity distribution calculator (try it!)
- A European website suggests “no more excuses” by providing lists of female researchers in Europe in different fields (~150 in Neuroscience!). All listed were “vetted” by being nominated by their National Academies or similar institutions
- The synapse project whose mission is to encourage young women to enter the field of neuroscience through information and mentorship
Press
- BiasWatchNeuro in the New York Times and Nature
Sister sites
- BiasWatchArchaeo: gender bias in archaeology
- BiasWatchEvol: gender bias in evolutionary biology
