WISE Prague 2009 Congress Presentations

Anne Houdouse - How myosin motors work: a fun journey from structure to function

Marcela Linková - Changing academia and its genderings

Articles

Do women have less success in peer review?
Herbert Marsh and Lutz Bornmann.
NATURE Vol 459, 28 May 2009

To Name or Not to Name: The Effect of Changing Author Gender on Peer Review
Robyn M. Borsuk, Lonnie W. Aarssen, Amber E. Budden, Julia Koricheva,
Roosa Leimu, Tom Tregenza, and Christopher J. Lortie
BioScience December 2009 / Vol. 59 No. 11

Women’s Underrepresentation in Science: Sociocultural and Biological Considerations
Stephen J. Ceci, Wendy M. Williams, and Susan M. Barnett
Cornell University

Book recommendations on Women in Science and related issues

Peggy A. Pritchard (editor) Success Strategies for Women in science. A potable mentor (2005), New York, Elsevier

Stephen J. Ceci, PhD and Wendy M. Williams (editors) Why aren’t more women in Science? Top researchers debate the evidence (2006), ISBN: 978-59147-485-2

Deborah Tannen You just don’t understand: Women and men in conversation (2001), Harper Collins

Kathy Barker At the Helm. A Laboratory Navigator. (2002), Cold spring Harbor, New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.

Useful Links

GenSET ( a new European Commission FP7 project dealing with gender in science)

WiLS database Women in Life Sciences

ELSO Database of Expert Women in the Molecular Life Sciences

EMBO Women in Science

European Platform of Women Scientists

WISE News

New report that has been published recentlyon women in science

'No quality without equality'

Interview with Britta Thomsen is a Danish Socialist MEP and a member of Parliament's Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality.

Website

European Union. A report of the European Parliament calls for better representation of women in science

The European Parliament Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality recently adopted a report on the representation of women in science. According to the report, women are greatly outnumbered by men in science and research jobs. Only 35% of the researchers working in the public domain and only 18% of the researchers working in the private domain are women.

The report calls on both the Member States and the Commission for action. Among other things, it suggests that the Commission significantly raise its objectives regarding women researchers employed in the public sector and introduce mandatory gender action plans in projects funded under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).

Such actions would ensure better representation of women in science and, at the same time, bring the EU's research capacity closer to the Lisbon goals of economic growth and prosperity.

European Parliament website