Project stories – Gender Gap in Science

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The cost of gender gap in science by Roberta Fulci

3 Dec 20192 Jul 2020

“What if, once diversity is attained in an institute, standards dropped? I don’t want to be hired at the cost of reducing the standards”. One month after I heard these…

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Philosophy behind the Creation of the Database of Good Practice

29 Apr 20192 Aug 2019

The SAGA Science, Technology and Innovation Gender Objectives List (STI GOL) published by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (2016) was used as an initial conceptual schema to capture elements…

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Database of Good Practice

14 Mar 201929 Apr 2019

The main objective of Task 3 of the Gender Gap project is to collect a sample of initiatives that aim to address the gender gap in Science and Mathematics and…

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Answers to our survey after 4 months

1 Sep 201821 Oct 2018

Four months after the opening of the 2018 Global Survey of Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Scientists, more than 16 500 answers have already been collected, yet we are aiming at…

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Telling the gender from a name

16 Jul 201814 Mar 2019

Why it is sensible to examine the reliability of gender inference methods by Helena Mihaljević and Lucía Santamaría Imagine that you want to teach a computer to figure out the…

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News from the Global Survey of Scientists

13 Jul 20181 Sep 2018

Two months after the opening of the 2018 Global Survey of Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Scientists, we have collected more than 12 000 answers already, yet we are aiming at…

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Mining 50 years of astronomy and astrophysics publications data

17 Mar 201816 Jul 2018

by Lucía Santamaría A goal of Task 2 of the Gender Gap project is the understanding of publication patterns in diverse research fields and across countries and regions. To realize…

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A fresh first look at the arXiv data

19 Jul 201714 Aug 2017

by Helena Mihaljević and Lucía Santamaría Peer reviewed publications are undoubtedly the primary means of communicating the results of academic research. However the inconveniences of this typically lengthy and slow…