1. Towards women-inclusive ecology: Representation, behavior, and perception of women at an international conference
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Lupon, Anna, Rodríguez-Lozano, Pablo, Bartrons, Mireia, Anadon-Rosell, Alba, Batalla, Meritxell, Bernal, Susana, Bravo, Andrea, Capdevila, Pol, Cañedo-Argüelles, Miguel, Catalán, Núria, Genua-Olmedo, Ana, Gutiérrez-Cánovas, Cayetano, Feio, Maria João, Lucati, Federica, Onandia, Gabriela, Poblador, Sílvia, Rotchés-Ribalta, Roser, Sala-Bubaré, Anna, Sánchez-Montoya, María Mar, Sebastián, Marta, Zufiaurre, Aitziber, Pastor, Ada, Feio, Maria, Sánchez-Montoya, María, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), European Commission, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (LSCE), and Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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0106 biological sciences ,Male ,Science and Technology Workforce ,Inertia ,Economics ,Social Sciences ,Surveys ,Careers in Research ,01 natural sciences ,Behavioral Ecology ,5. Gender equality ,Sociology ,Psychology ,[SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere ,0303 health sciences ,Multidisciplinary ,Ecology ,Careers ,Animal Behavior ,Physics ,Classical Mechanics ,Social Discrimination ,16. Peace & justice ,Professions ,Research Design ,Physical Sciences ,Medicine ,Female ,Sensory Perception ,Engineering sciences. Technology ,Research Article ,Employment ,Science Policy ,Science ,Gender Discrimination ,Sexism ,Research and Analysis Methods ,010603 evolutionary biology ,Sexual and Gender Issues ,03 medical and health sciences ,Motion ,Humans ,[SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment ,Biology ,030304 developmental biology ,Behavior ,Survey Research ,Ecology and Environmental Sciences ,Cognitive Psychology ,Biology and Life Sciences ,Ecología ,Leadership ,Labor Economics ,People and Places ,Cognitive Science ,Scientists ,Perception ,Population Groupings ,Zoology ,Neuroscience - Abstract
Este artículo contiene 18 páginas, 1 tabla, 5 figuras., Conferences are ideal platforms for studying gender gaps in science because they are important cultural events that reflect barriers to women in academia. Here, we explored women’s participation in ecology conferences by analyzing female representation, behavior, and personal experience at the 1st Meeting of the Iberian Society of Ecology (SIBECOL). The conference had 722 attendees, 576 contributions, and 27 scientific sessions. The gender of attendees and presenters was balanced (48/52% women/men), yet only 29% of the contributions had a woman as last author. Moreover, men presented most of the keynote talks (67%) and convened most of the sessions. Our results also showed that only 32% of the questions were asked by women, yet the number of questions raised by women increased when the speaker or the convener was a woman. Finally, the post-conference survey revealed that attendees had a good experience and did not perceive the event as a threatening context for women. Yet, differences in the responses between genders suggest that women tended to have a worse experience than their male counterparts. Although our results showed clear gender biases, most of the participants of the conference failed to detect it. Overall, we highlight the challenge of increasing women’s scientific leadership, visibility and interaction in scientific conferences and we suggest several recommendations for creating inclusive meetings, thereby promoting equal opportunities for all participants., AL was supported by the Government of Catalonia and the the European Social Fund (ESF) through the program Beatriu de Pino´s (BP-2018- 00082). PR-L was supported by a Margalida Comas postdoctoral contract (PD/031/2018), funded by the Government of the Balearic Islands and the ESF. AA-R was supported by a Humboldt Research Fellowship. MB was supported by the Spanish Government through the project Alkaldia (PID2019-111137GB-C21). SB was supported by a Ramon y Cajal fellowship from the Spanish Government and AEI/FEDER UE (RYC-2017- 22643). AGB was supported by a Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) Individual Fellowship (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016; project-749645). NC was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the MSCA grant agreement No.839709. MJF was supported by the Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology (FCT) through MARE strategic project (UIDB/04292/2020) and Norma Transito´ria. AGO was supported by the CESAM and FCT/MCTES (UIDP/50017/2020 + UIDB/50017/ 2020). CG-C was supported by the Spanish Government through a Juan de la Cierva – Incoporacio´n contract (IJC2018-036642-I). FL had a doctoral grant funded by FCT (PD/BD/52598/ 2014). GO was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research within the Collaborative Project“Bridging in Biodiversity Science – BIBS”(01LC1501A-H). SP was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship MSCA Seal of Excellence of the Research Foundation – Flanders (12ZZS21N)., With the institutional support of the ‘Severo OchoaCentre of Excellence’ accreditation (CEX2019-000928-S).
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- 2021