The Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science is delighted to announce the addition of two new partners to its lists of members: the International Geographical Union (IGU) and the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) are joining the committee. Professors Elena dell'Agnese and Céline Rozenblat will act as representative and deputy representative [...]
The Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science welcomes the International Union of Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine (IUPESM) among its members. The Union has already engaged on activities to promote gender equality through their Women in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering Task Group (WiMPBME). With this new partner the committee counts already with [...]
This year’s UN Human Rights Day focuses on the need to build back better following the Covid-19 pandemic by ensuring Human Rights are central to recovery efforts. To end the pandemic and build a strong recovery, we need to build good science. And we can only do that by giving women — half of humankind [...]
The Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science welcomes the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) among its members. This increases the reach of the committee to new academic disciplines.
The first meeting of the Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science took place via the BigBlueButton platform on September 12 2020. Each representative presented her/his partner organisation and its initiatives for gender equality in science. Elections of the chair and vice chair took place using the OpaVote platform. Catherine Jami was elected as chair [...]
On September 2020 the Standing Committee for Gender Equality was established to promote gender equality in science.
