Achieving Speaker Gender Equity at the American Society for Microbiology General Meeting

ABSTRACT In 2015, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) General Meeting essentially achieved gender equity, with 48.5% of the oral presentations being given by women. The mechanisms associated with increased female participation were (i) making the Program Committee aware of gender statistics,...

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Main Author: Arturo Casadevall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2015-09-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01146-15