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Percentages of Conference Invited Speakers Who Are Women Percentages of Conference Invited Speakers Who Are Women The CSWA recognizes that invitations to present research results at conferences are crucial to speakers' advancing their careers and providing role models for junior conference attendees. Therefore, the committee presents this list of recent astronomy conferences. Tabulated are the percentage of the invited speakers who were women (% W), the number of female speakers (# W), and the number of male speakers (# M). Latest statistics update April 9, 2012; latest table update August 8, 2013. For the "% W" column, a histogram is at right (click for full-size display) and summary statistics are: Minimum: 0.0% Mean: 21.5% First quartile: 13.0% Sample size: 74 Median: 20.0% Third quartile: 30.8% Maximum: 67.0% For comparison with these numbers, here are some demographic data compiled by Jim Klimchuk and Joan Schmelz. American Astronomical Society Members: 25% are women Full members: 18% are women Full and associate members: 19% are women All non-junior members: 18% are women American Geophysical Union: 25% of members are women International Astronomical Union: 15% of members are women (12.1% of US members; Cesarsky 2009) Want to know how many women speakers to expect in an unbiased sample? It may be more than you think! Check out the Conference Diversity Distribution Calculator . What you can do (this list courtesy of Nick White, Director of Science at NASA GSFC). When you are on scientific organizing committees for meetings please pay attention to diversity when selecting speakers. Project Scientists sponsoring meetings or conferences should also pay attention! Do not be afraid to speak up if you see unconscious bias creeping in! Our own advice page has added topic 9. Suggestions for Serving on a Scientific Organizing Committee The Feminist Philosophers blog has a nice discussion on the topic of female representation among plenary conference speakers with its own set of suggestions for conference and workshop organizers on the Gendered Conference Campaign page. Worthwhile advice to invited speakers can be found at this Q & A page entitled, "For gender equity at scholarly conferences". For conferences located in North America that specify invited speakers and are listed by the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre, this list is complete for 2012 and 2013. For conferences located elsewhere, this list of conferences is not complete. If you would like to add a conference, please carefully check the gender of all the invited speakers and send the information given in each column to the CSWA webmaster. Please remember to include only invited speakers on research topics, no popular lecturers. Thanks for your help! % # # M Conference Location Date SOC Chair W W Nov Binary Black Holes & Dual AGN: A Workshop in 12 1 7 Tucson, AZ 29, Todd Lauer Memory of David S. De Young 2012 Oct 13, 22 2 7 AAS Division of Planetary Sciences Reno, NV Nancy Chanover 2012 Sep 3, 0 0 21 Forty Years of Black Hole Thermodynamics Jerusalem, Israel Barak Kol 2012 X-Ray Binaries - Celebrating 50 Years Since the Jul 10, Peter Jonker & Andrea 38 3 5 Boston, MA Discovery of Sco X-1 2012 Prestwich Jul 30, 43 3 4 Blackhole Feedback 2012 Hanover, NH [No chair specified] 2012 Jul 17, 45 5 6 Gemini Science Meeting 2012 San Francisco, CA Pauline Barmby 2012 Star Formation and Gas Reservoirs in Nearby Jul 8, 43 3 4 Schenectady, NY Rebecca Koopmann Groups and Clusters 2012 European Week of Astronomy and Space Jul 1, Roberto Buonanno & 9 1 10 Rome, Italy Science 2012 Francoise Combes May XMM-Newton 2012 Science Workshop: Galaxy 6 1 15 Madrid, Spain 21, Hans Boehringer Clusters as Giant Cosmic Laboratories 2012 May 6, 60 3 2 AAS Division on Dynamical Astronomy Mt. Hood, OR Douglas Hamilton 2012 May 7, Andrew Fox & Jason 32 11 23 Gas Flows in Galaxies Baltimore, MD 2012 Tumlinson The Faint Early Sun: Paradox, Problem, or Apr 9, Jim Kasting & David 19 3 13 Baltimore, MD Distraction? 2012 Soderblom Noordwijkerhout, The Apr 2, Henny Lamers & Vanna 0 0 18 370 years of Astronomy in Utrecht Netherlands 2012 Pugliese Interacting Galaxies and Binary Quasars: A Apr 2, 67 12 6 Trieste, Italy Jorge Moreno Cosmic Rendezvous 2012 Jan 16, 20 2 8 Exoclimes 2012 Aspen, CO Nick Cowan 2012 Jan 8, 5 11 219th AAS Austin, TX Lee Anne Willson 2011 Dec 5, 37 7 12 The First Kepler Science Conference Moffett Field, CA Matt Holman 2011 Nov Fermi and Jansky: Our Evolving Understanding 0 0 6 St Michaels, MD 10, Roopesh Ojha of AGN 2011 Nov 6, 20 3 12 ADASS XXI Paris, France Carlos Gabriel 2011 Amsterdam, The Oct 26, 31 8 18 LOFT Science Meeting Anna Watts Netherlands 2011 Oct 18, 46 6 7 Signposts of Planets Greenbelt, MD [None given] 2011 Fifth Hinode Science Conference: Exploring the Oct 11, 38 5 8 Cambridge, MA Ed DeLuca Active Sun 2011 Oxford, United Sep Elizabeth Griffin & Robert 26 8 23 New Horizons in Time Domain Astronomy Kingdom 19, Hanisch 2011 Oct 9, 40 6 9 Bash Symposium 2011 Austin, TX Joel Green 2011 2011 SORCE Science Meeting: Decadal Cycles Sep 14 3 19 in the Sun, Sun-like Stars, and Earth's Climate Sedona, AZ 13, [None specified] System 2011 IAU Symposium 284: The Spectral Energy Sep 5, Cristina C. Popescu & 14 4 26 Preston, UK Distributions of Galaxies 2011 Richard J. Tuffs From Atoms to Stars: the Impact of Jul 26, 25 3 9 Oxford, UK Stuart Sim Spectroscopy on Astrophysics 2011 IAU Symposium 283: Planetary Nebulae - An Puerto de la Cruz, Jul 25, Letizia Stanghellini & 38 10 16 Eye to the Future Tenerife, Spain 2011 Arturo Manchado Jul 25, 6 1 16 New Horizons for High Redshifts Cambridge, UK [None specified] 2011 From Interacting Binaries to Exoplanets: Tatranská Lomnica, Jul 18, 23 11 36 Mercedes Richards Essential Modeling Tools Slovakia 2011 Jul 18, Simon White & Carlos 17 5 24 Galaxy Formation: An International Conference Durham, UK 2011 Frenk Gordon Research Conference on Origins of Jul 17, 33 5 10 South Hadley, MA Mike Meyers Solar Systems 2011 Saint-Michel-des- Jul 11, 12 1 7 Four Decades of Research on Massive Stars Nicole St-Louis Saints, QC 2011 Jun 29, 23 3 10 Fifth Coronal Loops Workshop Mallorca, Spain Ignacio Ugarte-Urra 2011 Jun 20, Andy Howell & Chris 19 7 29 Supernovae and their Host Galaxies Sydney, Australia 2011 Lidman Jun 13, Andrew Ptak and 15 7 39 Very Wide Field Surveys in Light of Astro2010 Baltimore, MD 2011 Massimo Robberto Jun 13, G. 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