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What to do when you realize the meeting you are speaking at is a YAMMM (yet another mostly male meeting)?
I am supposed to be talking at a meeting Tuesday: Almaden Institute 2014: Sequence the City -Metagenomics in the Era of Big Data.
In looking at the agenda for the meeting I am pretty bummed about the gender ratio of speakers. Looks like 18:5 Men to Women.
- Jeff Welser IBM
- David Haussler UCSC
- Daniel Huson Tubingen U
- Joe DeRisi UCSF
- Jane Carlton NYU
- Ajay Royyuru IBM
- Paula Olsiewski Sloan Foundation
- Christopher Mentzel Moore Foundation
- Anne Marie Kimball Gates Foundation
- Jonathan Eisen UC Davis
- Jessica Green U Oregon
- Mark Adams JCVI
- Eric Alm MIT
- Raul Andino UCSF
- Scott Kahn Illumina
- Mike Lelivelt Ion Torrent
- Radoje (Rade) Drmanac Complete Genomics
- Brett Bowman Pacific Biosciences
- Chris Mason Cornell
- Bart Weimer UC Davis
- David Crean Mars
- Astri Wayadande Oklahoma State U
- Christopher Elkins FDA
Not sure what to do about this. I am certainly (in a few minutes) going to be writing to the organizers. I am also pondering cancelling talking. I try very hard to be vigilant about gender ratios at meetings and it drives me crazy to see such skews. I know it is not always possible to have meetings have equal representation and I know some people try very hard and do not succeed. But this seems unpleasantly extreme. So – any thoughts or recommendations as to what to do would be appreciated.
UPDATE 5/5 –
Well the schedule has been updated – and now the male: female speaker ratio is 21:6. Note – Jack Gilbert is moderating and speaking and I am counting him twice. Also Robert Prill is opening each day and closing day 2 so in a way this could be counted as 23:6.
- Robert Prill, IBM
- Jeff Welser IBM
- David Haussler UCSC
- Daniel Huson Tubingen U
- Joe DeRisi UCSF
- Jane Carlton NYU
- Ajay Royyuru IBM
- Laurie Garrett (moderating)
- Paula Olsiewski Sloan Foundation
- Christopher Mentzel, Moore Foundation
- Anne Marie Kimball Gates Foundation
- Jonathan Eisen UC Davis
- Jessica Green U Oregon
- Robert Prill
- Mark Adams JCVI
- Eric Alm MIT
- Raul Andino UCSF
- Jack Gilbert (moderating)
- Jack Gilbert (speaking)
- Scott Kahn, Illumina
- Mike Lelivelt Ion Torrent
- Radoje (Rade) Drmanac Complete Genomics
- Brett Bowman Pacific Biosciences
- Chris Mason Cornell
- Bart Weimer UC Davis
- David Crean Mars
- Astri Wayadande Oklahoma State U
- Christopher Elkins FDA
- Robert Prill
UPDATE 5/7
So I decided to go to the meeting and talk. Here is a video slideshow of my talk with audio.
and here are the slides on Slideshare
I am not sure if I made the right decision but what I decided to do was to change my talk to feature the work of women and to highlight those women.
UPDATE 5/8
Here are some pics showing the before (left) and after (right) for how I changed my talk from the previous talk I gave about this topic. Among the changes I made:
- I added names and pictures of the women behind the work
- Changed examples to be about work of women when I had been using work of men
- Added additional examples of work by women directly related to my talk
I think this strategy is a potentially useful tool in combatting the implicit and subtle biases against women in STEM fields. All of what I said was true. I just made sure to emphasize and use examples of work by women when previously I had either not said who did certain work or had sometimes emphasized work by men. And I made sure to show pictures and say the names of the women behind the work too.
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Added name and picture of program officer Paula Olsiweski who I had quoted previously. |
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Changed example of new publication that we add to our collection and used a publication by a female |
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Included name and picture of about the topic |
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Included name and picture of about the topic. |
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Added picture and name of post doc Allison Fish who organized meeting I was discussing. |
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Added name and picture of Mary Jo Seminoff who coordinates production of the newsletter I had mentioned. |
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Added screenshot and names of Holly Bik interviewing Amy Pruden for the “People Behind the Science” series mentioned in previous slide. |
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Added name and picture of Brooke Borel and discussed her news stories (had mentioned news stories in general w/o examples) |
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Added picture and name and blog post of Holly Ganz who wrote about the news stories by Brooke Borel. |
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Changed example to be about Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello instead of Thomas Bruns. |
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Changed example to be about Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello instead of Thomas Bruns. |
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Added extra slide discussing Software Carpentry workshop organized by Jenna Lang and Tracy Teal (and added names and pics of them). |
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Added pics and names of Jo Handelsman and Tiffany Tsang who coordinated one of the examples on the slide but who had not gotten mentioned specifically. |
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Added picture and name of undergraduate student Hannah Holland-Moritz who was involved in this work. |
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Added picture and name of research associate Madison Dunitz who led this work. |
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Added name and picture of undergraduate student Sabreen Aulakh who was involved in this work. |
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Added picture of graduate student Laura Sauder who was our main contact in the lab of Josh Newfeld. |
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Added pictures and names of Darlene Cavalier and Caren Cooper who inspired me to get involved in Citizen Science. |
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Added picture and name of Darlene Cavalier who was keynote speaker at these meetings. |
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Added extra slide on the phone microbiome project and added names and pics of the people involved including graduate student Georgia Barguil. |
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Added names and pics of the people behind this project (Holly Menninger and Rob Dunn) |
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Changed slide a little bit and added name and pic of Jessica Richman, one of the people behind the uBiome project. |
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Added pics that included more of the key women behind this project – including Darlene Cavalier, Wendy Brown and Jenna Lang. |
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Added a slide about Altmetrics and added pic and name of Heather Piwowar and mentioned her work Had included one line about Altmetrics on a slide before. |
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Added reference to paper by Holly Bik and Miriam Goldstein and emphasized the workshops run by Holly Bik. Included pics and names on slide too. |
UPDATE 5/8
Added links to find out more information about the work of the women in the slides (links are in the image captions).
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