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21 Mar 2019
GenderInSITE, represented by its Director, Prof Roseanne Diab, participated in a roundtable titled “What drives the gender gap in science, technology and innovation? And how do we close it?” at the 63rd session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York on 20 March 2019. The session, which was organized by...
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13 Feb 2017
On February 7-8, GenderInSITE organized a workshop in Trieste, Italy with the International Council for Science (ICSU) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC) to explore the gender dimension within large international scientific research production and coordination initiatives, and to have initial...
Research
30 Aug 2016
National science academies are known for being organizations of excellence; in most academies, only the most accomplished scientists are elected to membership, in a peer-based nomination and evaluation procedure that guarantees new members are broadly respected and regarded as exceptional in their fields. Yet recently, many have begun to question whether science academies' membership structures ...