Women Biologists Avoid Spotlight at Conferences

摘要

A new study finds that women are much less likely than men to accept invitations to speak at major biology conferences. A report in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology found that only 16% of invited speakers at the European Society for Evolutionary Biology Congress between 2001 and 2011 were women, half their presence in the overall pool of senior life scientists, and that they were twice as likely as their male counterparts to turn down an invitation to talk in slots reserved for presenting original and important work. At the same time, the number of female presenters of posters and uninvited talks was almost at parity with men.