News
30 Aug 2016
We are delighted to announce that Brazilian sociologist and long-term science and gender specialist Alice Abreu has been selected as the new Acting Director of GenderInSITE. Professor Abreu was elected at the March 2015 Steering Committee meeting held in Sussex (UK) and started work on 1 May.
Speaking after the meeting, Prof. Abreu said, "I am very excited about this new appointment to direct...
News
30 Aug 2016
GenderInSITE is pleased to be hosting a panel, Transforming policies in funding, hiring and publishing, at the Gender Summit 7 Europe. The conference will take place in Berlin on 6-7 November.
Since 2011, the Gender Summit has held five conferences around the world to generate dialogue and identify important...
News
30 Aug 2016
This article was written by Henrietta Miers and originally appeared on the SciDev.net Analysis blog.
A smartphone app called IFA Krishi Nepal has been designed to inform Nepali farmers about agricultural techniques, ...
News
30 Aug 2016
A recently released report by Ernst & Young Global Limited (EY) found little movement toward gender diversity in the power and utilities sector, despite strong evidence that more diverse companies reap a financial reward.
The 2015 Women in Power and Utilities Index is the second published by the company; the first was published in 2014. The index looks at the number of women in leadership...
News
30 Aug 2016
A recent study of several payments for ecoystem services (PES) schemes in Kenya calls attention to the question of whether the benefits are accruing to both genders equally. ...
News
30 Aug 2016
GenderInSITE recently attended the Gender Summit 7 Europe in Berlin and was pleased to be able to host a panel on Transforming policies in funding, hiring and publishing on day 2 of the event.
The well-attended panel chaired by Shirley Malcom, head of Education...
Research
30 Aug 2016
The National Assessment on Gender and STI for Argentina, produced by the UNESCO Chair on Women in S&T in Latin America, Dr Gloria Bonder, was released in March.
Background: National Assessments
The National Assessments are a collaborative initiative of GenderInSITE, the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD), Women in Global Science and...
News
30 Aug 2016
In June 2015, participants from 30 countries came together at the headquarters of TWAS, The World Academy of Sciences in Trieste, Italy for the annual AAAS-TWAS Science Diplomacy summer course. Over the five days of the course, they explored various intersections between science and diplomacy, hearing from speakers on subjects...
News
30 Aug 2016
Dr. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, an organic chemist specializing in the study of medicinal plants, was confirmed as the next president of Mauritius on 4 June. When she takes the presidency, she will leave her current position as Managing Director of the Centre for Phytotherapy Research, a research laboratory that investigates the cosmetic, nutritional and therapeutic applications of plants.
Dr. Gurib-...
News
30 Aug 2016
This article was written by Henrietta Miers and originally appeared on the SciDev.net Analysis blog.
A smartphone app called IFA Krishi Nepal has been designed to inform Nepali farmers about agricultural techniques, livestock disease, the weather and market prices, ...