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Stop, collaborate and listen: Gender equality in social data science
Stop, collaborate and listen: Gender equality in social data science … of Product Innovation at SAGE Publishing, will address why gender equality is so important in more male dominated … and why a collective responsibility is key to achieving gender parity. Tuesday 8th October, 6:30pm – 9pm. …
Read moreAddressing the gender gap in the UK HPC community
Addressing the gender gap in the UK HPC community Posted …
Read moreIt's impossible to conduct research without software, say 7 out of 10 UK researchers
… to 99%.) Differences in software use with respect to gender Women made up 36% of respondents to the survey, … to “other”, “prefer not to say” or no response (the gender question was not mandatory). There is no … Differences in software development with respect to gender Although there is no difference in the use of …
Read moreMisconceptions still inhibit talented women from careers in computing
… the future. In addition, we have all heard about the gender gap between male and female wages, a disparity that … website that specialises in tracking technology jobs, the gender pay gap has all but disappeared in the tech sector, … reasonable to assume that market forces have levelled the gender wage gap in the UK technology sector as well. …
Read moreHow many women should you expect at an academic event?
… target - in other words, that they are representing the gender split in their community - it would help raise … (I note that this doesn't take into consideration other gender identities, but nor does the UK census , so we must work with what we have.) To look into the gender split within academia, we can turn to the Higher …
Read moreDiversity report from the first conference of Research Software Engineers
… but the main two that the RSE conference focussed on were gender and ethnicity. It was an aspiration that the … What was the makeup of the committee? This was remarkedly gender balanced for the domain, the chart belows shows the gender split. Sadly it wasn’t very ethnically diverse. …
Read moreImproving diversity in research software projects and events
… and so on, however, the most commonly addressed one is the gender. Without taking into account the importance of one or the other aspect, gender has the advantage to be able to be easily assessable. … etc. However, even if we take the sole issue of gender and its simplified version (binary distinction …
Read moreThe Importance of Grace and Why We Need More Women in Scientific Computing
… PhD. So what should we expect there? To look into the gender split within academia, we can turn to the Higher Education Statistics Agency. From this we get the following gender profile of academic staff in English Universities in … The findings from the literature concerning the effect of gender diversity on team performance suggest benefits for …
Read moreCW22 - Speakers
… focusing on how data systems can reinforce and perpetrate gender stereotypes. She is an open science contributor to … working in research and policy for human rights NGOs as a gender and sexuality specialist: she holds an MA in Gender Studies from SOAS University of London and a BA in …
Read moreDoes Research Software Engineering have a diversity issue?
… All UK workers Gender (female) 14 46 … community falls short of related fields. It identifies a gender diversity gap, which we might expect given the …
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