{"id":3699,"date":"2013-06-24T15:47:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T15:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/athenedonald\/?p=3699"},"modified":"2013-08-20T20:08:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T20:08:58","slug":"all-male-invited-speakers-its-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/athenedonald\/2013\/06\/24\/all-male-invited-speakers-its-complicated\/","title":{"rendered":"All Male Invited Speakers? It&#8217;s Complicated!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago I <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/athenedonald\/2012\/06\/13\/do-all-male-shortlists-matter\/\">wrote<\/a> about the complexities that may underlie all male short-lists for high-powered jobs. The scientific world is also full of justified angst about the disproportionate number of men who appear on conference platforms, particularly as invited speakers. A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/jeb.12198\/abstract\">paper<\/a>\u00a0 has analysed the situation at one particular conference, the European Society for Evolutionary Biology Congress. It showed that what was really out of line was not the number of women <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">invited<\/span> to give presentations, but the number that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">accepted<\/span>.\u00a0 Around 50% of the women invited declined to come \u2013 much higher than a comparable response from the men. The authors of this paper (Schroeder, Dugdale et al) consider the possible reasons why this rate is so high. What is interesting about the paper is that it highlights that, as with all-male shortlists, what at first sight looks like &#8216;bad behaviour&#8217; by the powers- that-be, variously conference organisers and head-hunters, is actually significantly affected by the women themselves for all kinds of legitimate and complicated reasons. \u00a0I&#8217;ve posted my further thoughts on this important but less than straightforward issue, along with why it matters in terms of role models, over at the Royal Society&#8217;s Inside Science blog. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.royalsociety.org\/inside-science\/2013\/06\/24\/invited-speakers-role-models-and-women\/\">Read more there&#8230;&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago I wrote about the complexities that may underlie all male short-lists for high-powered jobs. The scientific world is also full of justified angst about the disproportionate number of men who appear on conference platforms, particularly as invited &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/athenedonald\/2013\/06\/24\/all-male-invited-speakers-its-complicated\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27],"tags":[672,674,671,673,188],"class_list":["post-3699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equality","category-women-in-science","tag-all-male-shortlists","tag-hannah-dugdale","tag-invited-speakers","tag-julia-schroeder","tag-royal-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/athenedonald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/athenedonald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/athenedonald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/athenedonald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/athenedonald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/athenedonald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/athenedonald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/athenedonald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/athenedonald\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}