Welcome to the website of the Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science

In order to promote gender equality in science, a number of international scientific organizations who took part in the project A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It? wish to act together to further promote this goal by continuing and enlarging the work accomplished so far, in particular by supporting women and girls’ equal access to science education, fostering equal opportunity and treatment for females in their careers. For this purpose, they established a Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science (SCGES) in September 2020.

The Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science has a page on Linkedin here.

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Latest News from the Committee

Some relevant initiatives for gender equality by five scientific international unions

Find here a page with links to interviews with five scientific international unions. These case studies summarize a number of issues relating to gender equality, as part of the project “Advancing gender equality in scientific organizations” lead jointly by the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), the  International Science Council (ISC) and the Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science…

Towards gender equality in scientific organizations: assessment and recommendations

Academies of science, medicine and engineering, along with international scientific unions, play an important role in shaping scientific agendas, recognizing scientific excellence, and advising policy-makers. In doing so, they influence whose expertise is visible and whose voices are heard in science. Persistent gender gaps within these organizations – relative to the share of women in…

Women in scientific organizations: global evidence from science academies and unions

The 13th SCGES webinar is organized jointly with ISC and IAP. A special webinar from the ISC, IAP and SCGES on International Day of Women and Girls in Science – 11 February 2026 Slides with statistics about the event. Slides of the webinar here. Video of the webinar here. On the International Day of Women…

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