Confronting Implicit Gender Bias in Neuroscience The Society for Neuroscience website provides information on Implicit Bias, gender bias in the field and webinars on bias, recruitment and retention. Found: 28/11/2014. Source: www.sfn.org/Careers-and-Training/Women-in-Neuroscience/Department-Chair-Training-to-Increase-Diversity/Confronting-Implicit-Gender-Bias-in-Neuroscience
Huffington Post: Girls Better At Making Story-Based Video Games Than Boys
Michael Rundle of the Huffington Post reports on a University of Sussex study that showed that girls are “better at making story-based video games than boys”. More at www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/28/girls-games-boys_n_6236472.html and at the University of Sussex website www.sussex.ac.uk/alumni/newsandevents?id=27860
NYTimes / Guardian / Telegraph: Germany to mandate quotas for women in boardrooms
Alison Smail of the New York Times reports on Germany’s plan to introduce a bill requiring the country’s top companies to have at least 30 percent women in their supervisory boards by 2016. In Europe, Norway was the first country
Harvard Business Review: Rethink What You “Know” About High-Achieving Women
Robin Ely, Pamela Stone, and Colleen Ammerman report on a survey of 25,000 Harvard Business School graduates in the Harvard Business Review, investigating why the gender gap in senior positions persists despite growing numbers of women with credentials and experience
Inaugural CignetS Athena SWAN for Computer Science Workshop
The inaugural CignetS Athena SWAN for Computer Science workshop will take place at the British Computer Society Headquarters on the 1st Floor of the Davidson Building (5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA) from 10am to 4pm on Monday, 1 December
G.Hack Programming Workshop at Music Tech Fest
A G.Hack team will give a workshop on how to hack a Web Audio API straight through the Google Chrome web browser to make a sound map of Centre Pompidou in Paris as part of the Music Tech Fest. The
IEEE-WiE & IEEESB QMUL Meet & Greet Event
The QMUL IEEE Women in Engineering & IEEE Student Branch Committee presents an evening for all the undergraduate and postgraduate students to get involved in IEEE (Institute of Electrical & Electronic) activities at QMUL. We have a zestful IEEE student
BBC Radio 4: Dr Micheline Sheehy-Skeffington speaks following her Equality Tribunal Success
BBC Radio 4 Women’s Hour’s Jenni interviews Dr Micheline Sheehy-Skeffington, grandaughter of Irish suffragette Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, following her Equality Tribunal Success. Dr. Sheehy-Skeffington speaks about why she chose to pursue the case against the National University of Ireland, Galway,
Michelle Ryan: Women Singled Out for Inferior Positions?
Reasons for the glass cliff as given by women vs. men (Ryan, Haslam & Postmes 2007). Today’s talk by Professor Michelle Ryan of the University of Exeter at the Fogg Lecture Theatre on the glass cliff led to the following
SBCS@QMUL presents an Athena SWAN Seminar by Professor Michelle Ryan
From The Glass Cliff project website (psychology.exeter.ac.uk/research/glasscliff): “Extending the metaphor of the glass ceiling, the glass cliff describes the phenomenon whereby individuals belonging to particular groups are more likely to be found in leadership positions that are associated with a