Carol Woodward

ICIAM is an active participant in the Standing Committee on Gender Equality in Science (SCGES). The SCGES Webinar Series is a regular event organized by its Partner Institutions and coordinated by the SCGES. The series highlights various topics of interest around the focus of the Committee. The initiative was launched in 2022, and all past SCGES Webinars are easily accessible for viewing on the SCGES YouTube channel.

The next event in the webinar series will be a hybrid event entitled, “How to Evaluate and Reduce the Gender Gap in Science?” This event will simultaneously be part of the SCGES...

The Standing Committee on Gender Equality in Science (SCGES) issued its second annual report.  SCGES has 21 partners representing scientists around the world, brought together across disciplines to promote gender equality in science.  The aim of SCGES is to ensure exchange of information amongst international scientific unions to foster gender equality and the implementation of recommendations of the “Gender Gap in Science Project.”

This report, compiled after the Committee’s second year of existence, is evidence of its current and future work on this endeavor.  Starting with a short synthesis...

October Webinar on Gender Equality

ICIAM is an active participant in the Standing Committee on Gender Equality in Science (SCGES). To bring greater attention to activities supporting gender equality, the SCGES started a webinar in early 2022 where sessions highlight issues and activities related to gender equality. The next installment in this webinar series will be Oct. 26, 14:00-16:00 CET.  This session, organized by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, will be on “Moving Ahead on Gender Equality: A Chemistry Perspective.”  For more information on the webinar and to complete...

   The Standing Committee on Gender Equality in Science (SCGES) issued its first annual report.  SCGES has 15 partners representing scientists around the world, brought together across disciplines to promote gender equality in science.  The aim of SCGES is to ensure exchange of information amongst international scientific unions to foster gender equality and the implementation of recommendations of the “Gender Gap in Science Project.” (Information about this project can be found here.)

   This report, compiled after the committee’s first year of existence, is evidence of its current and future...

ICIAM is an active participant in the new Standing Committee on Gender Equality in Science (See the page, /standing-committee-gender-equality-science-scges).  To bring greater attention to activities supporting gender equality, ICIAM has created a new web page to collect information about activities its member societies are doing in support of gender equality.  The page is located at: /iciam-activities-support-gender-equality. 

We know that there are many activities worldwide that support gender equality, and we will use this page to highlight them.  If your society has had an event or some...