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Fewer invited talks by women in evolutionary biology symposia

In English

Författare

  • J. Schroeder
  • H. L. Dugdale
  • R. Radersma
  • M. Hinsch
  • D. M. Buehler
  • J. Saul
  • L. Porter
  • A. Liker
  • I. De Cauwer
  • P. J. Johnson
  • A. W. Santure
  • A. S. Griffin
  • E. Bolund
  • L. Ross
  • T. J. Webb
  • P. G. D. Feulner
  • I. Winney
  • M. Szulkin
  • J. Komdeur
  • M. A. Versteegh
  • C. K. Hemelrijk
  • Erik Svensson
  • H. Edwards
  • Maria Karlsson
  • S. A. West
  • E. L. B. Barrett
  • D. S. Richardson
  • V. van den Brink
  • J. H. Wimpenny
  • S. A. Ellwood
  • M. Rees
  • K. D. Matson
  • A. Charmantier
  • N. dos Remedios
  • N. A. Schneider
  • C. Teplitsky
  • W. F. Laurance
  • R. K. Butlin
  • N. P. C. Horrocks
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Summary, in English

Lower visibility of female scientists, compared to male scientists, is a potential reason for the under-representation of women among senior academic ranks. Visibility in the scientific community stems partly from presenting research as an invited speaker at organized meetings. We analysed the sex ratio of presenters at the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) Congress 2011, where all abstract submissions were accepted for presentation. Women were under-represented among invited speakers at symposia (15% women) compared to all presenters (46%), regular oral presenters (41%) and plenary speakers (25%). At the ESEB congresses in 2001-2011, 9-23% of invited speakers were women. This under-representation of women is partly attributable to a larger proportion of women, than men, declining invitations: in 2011, 50% of women declined an invitation to speak compared to 26% of men. We expect invited speakers to be scientists from top ranked institutions or authors of recent papers in high-impact journals. Considering all invited speakers (including declined invitations), 23% were women. This was lower than the baseline sex ratios of early-mid career stage scientists, but was similar to senior scientists and authors that have published in high-impact journals. High-quality science by women therefore has low exposure at international meetings, which will constrain Evolutionary Biology from reaching its full potential. We wish to highlight the wider implications of turning down invitations to speak, and encourage conference organizers to implement steps to increase acceptance rates of invited talks.

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

2063-2069

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of evolutionary biology

Volym

26

Issue

9

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Ämne

  • Biological Sciences

Nyckelord

  • career ladder progression
  • conference presenters
  • discrimination
  • evolutionary biology
  • gender difference
  • implicit bias
  • invited
  • speakers
  • leaky pipeline
  • scientific visibility
  • sex ratios

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1420-9101