During the conference, we want to address several topics, including data on gender bias in academia and research, motherhood, harassment, leadership, and visibility of women in science.
In order to go deeper into these issues, we have divided the program according to these topics.
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November 4th, 2020 (Schedule in GMT+1)
Topics: Maternity Leaking pipe. Make the academy FAIR for women. Balance career and private life.
- 11:00 Opening.
- 11:05-11:40 “Bottom-up initiatives to promote gender equality: from individual actions to communities of practice” Live-Online Talk by Elena Gómez Díaz (Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina “López – Neyra”, Spain)
- 11:40-12:15“Unraveling the gender productivity gap in science: a meta-analytical review” Live-Online Talk by Esther Sebastián (Universidad Miguel Hernández, Spain)
- 12:15-12:25 Break
- 12:25-13:00 “Outnumbered and Surrounded: Women Working in Male-Dominated Research Fields” Live-Online Talk by Malin Kylander (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Lunch Break
- 15:00-17:00 Roundtable with representatives of different Scientific Societies and some of our speakers:
- Hazel Norman, British Ecological Society.
- Maria Amélia Martins-Loução, Sociedade Portuguesa de Ecologia.
- Alexandra-Maria Klein, Ecological Society of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (GfÖ).
- Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno, European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists (EAVP).
- Ainhoa Magrach, Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre (AEET).
- Ada Pastor (SIBECOL)
- Esther Sebastián (Universidad Miguel Hernández, Spain).
- Malin Kylander (Stockholm University, Sweden)
- Elena Gómez Díaz (Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina “López – Neyra”, Spain).
Moderators: Mar Sobral and Sara Varela, Comité de Igualdad, AEET.
November 5th, 2020 (Schedule in GMT+1)
Topics: Problems. Issues.
- 11:00-11:05 Presentation of the day
- 11:05-11:40 “The experience of Joan Roughgarden as a woman in science” Recorded-Online Joan Roughgarden (University of Hawaii, USA)
- 11:40-12:15 “Family, maternity and academia – things don’t always go as planned” Live-Online Talk by Florencia Yannelli (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
- 12:15-12:25 Break
- 12:25-13:00 “No feeling is final: preventing abuse from destroying scientific careers” Live-Online Talk by A. Márcia Barbosa (Freelance consultant, Portugal)
Lunch Break
- 15:00-17:00 Roundtable with representatives of different Scientific Societies and some of our speakers:
- Hazel Norman, British Ecological Society.
- Maria Amélia Martins-Loução, Sociedade Portuguesa de Ecologia.
- Alexandra-Maria Klein, Ecological Society of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (GfÖ).
- Ainhoa Magrach, Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre (AEET).
- Ada Pastor (SIBECOL)
- Paloma López Guerrero (Women with the feet on the ground)
- A. Márcia Barbosa (Freelance consultant, Portugal).
- Florencia Yannelli (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany).
Moderators: Mar Sobral and Sara Varela, Comité de Igualdad, AEET.
November 6th, 2020 (Schedule in GMT+1)
Topics: Leadership. Visibility. Actions to make women visible.
- 11:00-11:05 Presentation of the day
- 11:05-11:40 “A winding road from mathematics to the study of biodiversity” Live-Online Talk by Hélène Morlon (Biological Institute of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, France)
- 11:40-12:15 “Women in Science: Persistence pays off!” Live-Online Talk by Catherine Graham (Center for Biodiversity, Switzerland)
- 12:15-12:25 Break
- 12:25-13:00 “Experiences of a (female) senior editor: the good, the bad, and the ugly” Live-Online Talk by Lee Hsiang Liow (University of Oslo, Norway)
Lunch Break
- 15:00-17:00 Roundtable with representatives of different Scientific Societies and some of our speakers:
- Hazel Norman, British Ecological Society.
- Maria Amélia Martins-Loução, Sociedade Portuguesa de Ecologia.
- Alexandra-Maria Klein, Ecological Society of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (GfÖ).
- Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno, European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists (EAVP).
- Ainhoa Magrach, Asociación Española de Ecología Terrestre (AEET).
- Ada Pastor (SIBECOL)
- Lee Hsiang Liow (University of Oslo, Norway).
- Anna-Sophie Fiston Lavier (University of Montpellier, France).
- Anna Traveset (IMEDEA, Spain).
- Montserrat Vila (Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spain).
- Catherine Graham (Center for Biodiversity, Switzerland).
Moderators: Mar Sobral and Sara Varela, Comité de Igualdad, AEET.
During to the meeting we will be sharing a series of recorded talks by the following scientists:
- “What’s wrong with me?” by Pauline Gagnon (Indiana University, USA)
- “The experience of Montserrat Vila as a woman in science” by Montserrat Vila (Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spain)
- “My periplus as a woman ecologist“ by Anna Traveset (IMEDEA, Spain)
- “Making science and Illustrating it” by Cirenia Arias Baldrich (Freelancer and Oxford Brookes University, UK)
- “The experience of Natalie Cooper as a woman in science” by Natalie Cooper (Natural History Museum, UK)
- “An honest look into my academic career: research and personal life difficult coexistence” by Soledad Domingo (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
- “How is the academia we want to work in?” by Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno (Transmitting Science, Spain)
- “Sleeping with the enemy: harassment in fieldwork campaigns” by Sara Gamboa (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
- “Reflections on Maternity and Academia” by Carola Gómez (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
- “My experience in science as a woman” by Lucía Latorre (IMEDEA, Spain)
- “Puff pastry: Mille-Feuille Cake” by Maria Amélia Martins-Loução (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
- “Personal Reflections by Hazel Norman” by Hazel Norman (British Ecological Society, UK)
- “The butterfly girl: how childhood role models and contemporary peers have shaped me as an ecologist” by Moria Robinson (Michigan State University, USA)
- “Developing gender-inclusive conferences in Ecology: results from the first SIBECOL conference” This research has been conducted by the Gender & Science group of the Iberian Society of Limnology, AIL & collaborators) by Ada Pastor (Aarhus University, Denmark)
- “Perspectives from an immigrant” by Catalina Pimiento (University of Zurich / Swansea University (Switzerland / UK)
- “Motherhood in Academia” by Ana M. C. Santos (Guida) (Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global, Spain)
- “What I learnt about gender issues in an ecology lab” by Florence Volaire (Center for Functional and Evolutive Ecology, France)
- “Be passionate and enthusiastic about what you do” by Alexandra-Maria Klein, (University of Freiburg, Germany)
- “Do what you want” by Anna-Sophie Fiston Lavier (University of Montpellier, France).
- “The experience of Joan Roughgarden as a woman in science” Recorded-Online Joan Roughgarden (University of Hawaii, USA)