Re: Bioimaging in Genoa - Open access - Great Talks, No women ?

Posted by Alberto Diaspro on
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Thank you for your observations. Please, let me tell you that: 1) Eirini is a woman; 2) I personally invited women that, for different reasons, declined; 3) I invited women - as I use to do - not because they are women - simply because they do excellent research in AND (logical) with the fact that I know the research they do; 4) I did not reply because i was on travelling with limited Internet access.
I am Sorry for the xtremely low percentage, hopefully you will like Science.

Alby iPad

> Il giorno 08 ott 2015, alle ore 14:41, Julia Edgar <[hidden email]> ha scritto:
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> Yes, much appreciated, Jeremy.
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> There is no 'Like' button on the confocal server and no way to insert an image in a mail but everyone knows what they look like anyway so I give Jeremy a huge ‘Like’.
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> Thank you for your efforts, Jeremy! The Swedish part of me really appreciates and the French part of me loves it! :)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Confocal Microscopy List [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Jeremy Adler
> Sent: den 8 oktober 2015 11:20
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> Subject: Re: Bioimaging in Genoa - Open access - Great Talks, No women ?
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> Last week I posed a simple question about a conference that was being promoted using this list.
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> 'Alberto, in case my reading of unfamiliar names is incorrect,  could you give us the fraction of the speakers that are male.'
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> There has been no response - the question seems to come down to whether men make up  100% or just 96% of the speakers. Implicit  in the question is how is this possible.
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> The massive under representation women as speakers is not trivial, being invited to speak has considerable career advantages, its looks good on a CV, it provides good networking opportunities beyond those available to conference participants, in addition speakers costs are often met and the unstated deal is that the organizers then expect/hope that the chosen speakers will reciprocate and invite them to their conferences - a loop that further works to exclude women. That speakers often become decision makers on grant applications and publications makes this cosy arrangement even more pernicious.
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> So Alberto please answer a very simple but important  question.
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