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Documenting women representation & combating gender-biased panels in Indian STEM conferences @vaishananth + @polybiotique
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http://BiasWatchIndia.com 24-06-2020 12:53:08
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📢NEW PAPER! We found that over 5 years, women scholars were underrepresented as authors of invited submissions in 5 elite psych journals relative to the proportion of women full & associate professors in psychology at R1 institutions. 🧵1/3 psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-30… APA Journals



Huge congratulations to all the latest winners of the RMS Section Awards - including Life Sciences winner, Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan (She/Her) pictured with @michellepeckham and @i_jayas. Read more about all our winners here: rms.org.uk/resource/rms-s…


BiasWatchIndia moneycontrol.com/news/trends/ed…

Check out our latest profile! Dr. Abhilasha Joshi (Abhilasha Joshi, PhD) studies the neuroscience of action, cognition, and timing. Follow the link to learn more and listen to the full interview! #StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuro storiesofwin.org/profiles/2024/…

Indian #STEM arena is characterized by deeply entrenched forms of #exclusion that operate along the axes of caste, gender, and their intersectionality. Our recent article Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News: liebertpub.com/doi/epdf/10.10…



Legality & social acceptability can reveal very different aspects of the same issue. Caste-based discrimination is illegal, but social lives of most Indians are conducted largely within their caste hierarchies - Pew Research Center 2021 survey



Myriad of ways that #genderbias operates in Indian academia. Incredible work in this area also by BiasWatchIndia nature.com/articles/s4200…


And of course, we must talk about the various exclusion mechanisms for queer-trans individuals at different levels of education and in academia - report by Sayantan Datta. Many thanks for your continued work in this area, and for sharing relevant works with us for this article.


Out of 34 contributors to a 4 page spread on #WorldHeartDay in the #IndianExpress today only 2 are women.BiasWatchIndia And there are men going around protesting that women are being unfairly privileged these days!

#WorldUticariaDay advertorial in Times of India today. 48 speakers only 6 women BiasWatchIndia And we thought medical field had a better gender balance than engineering 🤔



The last part of the talk focused on diversity issues, with two broad themes: issues related to gender disparities (cc BiasWatchIndia), and issues related to accessibility. (21/n)

