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Gender Summit 3 - North America 2013 full program
DAY 1, 13 Nov 2013
WELCOME
Cora Marrett PhD, Acting Director, National Science Foundation (NSF), USA
Oldřich Vlasák, Vice-President of the European Parliament, Europe (video)
Maire Geoghegan Quinn, Commissioner for Research, Innovation & Science, Directorate General Research, Innovation & Science, European Commission, Europe (video
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama and Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls, USA
PLENARY PANEL: Develop a collective commitment to strengthen human capital development, research and innovation through diversity
In this session leaders of major research funding bodies agreed on a joint approach to taking specific, evidence-based actions, which can clearly benefit the quality of research and innovation, for both women and men.
Chair and Summit Overview
Wanda E. Ward PhD, Director of Office of International and Integrative Activities, National Science Foundation (NSF), USA
- European Commission
Dominique Ristori, Director General, European Commission Directorate General Joint Research Council, EC – video - National Science Foundation
Cora Marrett PhD, Acting Director, NSF - Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Isabelle Blain, Vice-President Research Grants and Scholarships, NSERC - CRSNG - The National Council on Science and Technology of Mexico
Julia Taguena PhD, Director of Scientific Development, CONACYT
PLENARY PANEL: Develop joint policies for innovation and partnership in STEM higher education as a means of widening access to knowledge
In this session, leaders of STEM academia discussed the need for joint policy actions and criteria needed to boost the benefits of diverse and gender-responsive scientific and technical education and access to knowledge.
Chair: Patricia Falcone, Associate Director, National Security and International Affairs, OSTP, The White House, USA
- Developing an international network to address emerging infectious diseases and water issues
Rita Colwell PhD, Chair of Canon US Life Sciences Inc. and Distinguished Professor, University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA - Educating for standards led technology transfer
Rocío Cassaigne Hernández PhD, Professor, Faculty of Chemistry Centre for Advanced Technology, Mexico - Collaborations with industry to improve STEM human capital
Nan Mattai, Senior Vice President, Engineering & Technology, Rockwell Collins, USA - Partnerships for wider access to quality higher education
Phyllis Wise, University of Illinois
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
- Introduction of Speaker
Joy Johnson PhD, Scientific Director of the Institute of Gender and Health (IGH), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Canada - Keynote address
Julie Payette, Chief Operating Officer, Montreal Science Centre and Vice-President of Canada Lands Company; Former NASA/CSA Astronaut, Canada
PLENARY PANEL: Demonstrate evidence of how incorporating sex and gender consideration into STEM research and innovation informs policy
In this session, leading scientists described how consideration of gender issues in research and innovation content can improve knowledge production, application and reporting, with increased benefits for both science and science policy, such as better healthcare, better methodologies, fair recruitment, better education systems, better science evidence for women and men.
Chair: Juan Pedro Laclette PhD, Professor, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Co-Chair of the Interamerican Network of the Academies of Science at the Mexican Academy of Sciences, Mexico
- Improving the Efficacy of Vaccinations for Women, Men and Children and Consequences for Public Health Policies
Sabra Klein PhD, Assistant Professor, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA - The Prevalence of Science-Gender Stereotypes and its Impact on Education and Policy
Brian Nosek PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, USA - Encouraging young women to study engineering and sciences, and enhancing the status of women in the profession
Ruby Heap PhD, Professor, Department of History at the University of Ottawa, Coordinator of the University of Ottawa Women in Engineering Research Group, Canada
DAY 2, 14 Nov 2013
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
- Introduction of Speaker
Julia Tagüeña PhD, Deputy General Director of Scientific Development, The National Council on Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACYT), Mexico - Keynote Address
Ana María Cetto PhD, Professor of the Institute of Physics, and lecturer, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico
PLENARY PANEL: Harnessing Gender Dimensions to Address Global Scientific and Societal Challenges
The goal of this session is to demonstrate gender issues in the context of research, which has global influence on the lives of both women and men, such as transport, health, security, as well as effectiveness and efficiency of research collaboration.
Chair: Simone Buitendijk PhD, MPH, MD, Vice-rector Magnificus and member of the Board of the University of Leiden; Professor and Chair of Women’s and Family Health at the Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands, Europe
- Cross Border Research Collaboration
Subra Suresh PhD, President of Carnegie Mellon University, USA (former Director of the NSF) representing the Global Research Council, International - Patents for Humanity: Building a Better Modern World
Teresa Stanek Rea, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the US Patents and Trademark Office, USA - Why gender budgeting empowers women and can boost economic and social development
Janet Stotsky PhD, Adviser, Office of Budget and Planning, International Monetary Fund, International - Women and agricultural and nutritional knowledge
Amanda Galvez PhD, Professor, Department of Food and Biotechnology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
PARALLEL SESSIONS: Stream 1 – Diversity in participation
In these sessions, speakers and discussions focused on why it matters who participates in research and innovation; how research problems are defined and solved, how women and men communicate, address risk factors, and make decisions.
1.1 Equity for Excellence in Research Teams
1.2 Openness and Diversity in Innovation and Collective Problem Solving
Women’s participation in higher education has been growing but their creative and intellectual capital and talent have been greatly under-utilized. The speakers in this session will show evidence of how those inside and outside the formal research and innovation structures, but in particular women, can be effectively engaged and contribute successful solutions to a variety of innovation problems that the traditional approaches have not been able to solve.
Discussant: Janet Abatte PhD, Associate Professor and Co-Director of Graduate Program in STS - National Capital Region Campus, Virginia Tech, USA
- Task and compositional factors in individual and group problem solving
Stephen M. Fiore PhD, Associate Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Central Florida, USA - Innovating Together the New Future of Electronics
Krunali Patel, Business Manager, Storage Products Group, Texas Instruments (TI), USA - Discovering Markets with the Help of Citizens
Martina Schraudner PhD, Head of the Department of Gender and Diversity in Organizations, Technical University Berlin, and Director of Responsible Research and Innovation Unit, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany - STEM Women Faculty as Entrepreneurs
Mary Juhas PhD, Associate Vice President, Gender Initiatives in STEMM, Office of Research, Clinical Professor, Materials Science & Engineering Co-investigator, Project CEOS (Comprehensive Equity at Ohio State), An NSF ADVANCE Program Award, Ohio State University, USA
1.3 Opportunities and Challenges for Women of Color in STEM and Society
The issues discussed in this session concerns the needs and the means of progressing women of color in research and innovation, and in society in general, where until now, as a group, they received much less attention in the discourse on gender issues.
Discussant: Kelly Mack PhD, PhD, Vice President for Undergraduate Science Education and Executive Director, Project Kaleidoscope, Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), USA
- Supporting Scholarly Careers of Underrepresented Faculty
Loretta Moore PhD, Loretta Moore PhD, Interim Vice President for Research and Federal Relations & Professor, Department of Computer Science, Jackson State University, USA - Social Psychology Research on Women of Color in the STEM Disciplines
Kecia Thomas PhD, Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology, University of Georgia, Founding director, Center for Research and Engagement in Diversity, USA - An American Indian Perspective: Haskell/KU Collaboration, SACNAS and CEOSE
Marigold Linton PhD, Director, American Indian Outreach, University of Kansas, USA
1.4 Diversity in Leadership
While 50% of PhD degrees are today awarded to women, in both the USA and Europe, the scientific leadership remains predominantly male, stubbornly so. The speakers will discuss why it is critical for women to be leaders: to increase diversity of leadership styles; strengthen the scientific human capital; challenge stereotype behaviors; and make transparent what are the necessary leadership competencies.
Discussant: Grace Jinliu Wang PhD, Division Director, Industrial Innovation and Partnerships Division, Directorate of Engineering, National Science Foundation (NSF), USA
Diversity in participation in STEM, as researchers and subjects of research, is crucial to establishing the same opportunities for women and men, across all social and ethnic groups, to contribute to and benefit from science knowledge. The speakers will discuss how gatekeepers can become agents of change.
Discussant: Carla Fehr PhD, Associate Professor, (Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy), Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Changing faculty gender bias
Jo Handelsman PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor and Frederick Phineas Rose Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, USA - Platforms for Engineering Global Development
Madiha El Mehelmy Kotb, President, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Canada/USA - Gatekeepers in Recruiting and Organizational Solutions
Brian Rubineau PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Organizational Behavior, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, USA - Survey of Science Editors’ Policies on Standards for Reporting Gender
Shirin Heidari PhD, Executive Editor, Journal of the International AIDS Society and Member of Council and Chair of the Gender Policy Committee, European Association of Science Editors, Europe
KEYNOTE
- Introduction of Speaker
Elizabeth Pollitzer PhD, Director, Portia Ltd, UK - Keynote remarks
Ralph Cicerone PhD, President, US National Academy of Sciences, and Chair, National Research Council, USA - The Future of the Gender Summits
Elizabeth Pollitzer PhD, Director, Portia Ltd, UK - Video Remarks from Africa
Olive Shisana PhD, Chief Executive Officer, Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), South Africa
PARALELL SESSIONS: Stream 2- Roadmap development sessions
The goal of this part of the program was to build on the extensive evidence already available to jointly develop a Roadmap for action, which will set out specific milestones that can be achieved by the different stakeholder groups making up the science system. Key points and recommendations from the individual sessions were presented in the final Plenary Session.
2.1 Cultivating and Promoting Future Leaders
The Roadmap discussion in this session focused on the practices and processes that can ensure more effective promotion and progress of women already in the system, and ready to take on leadership roles. Speakers will provide specific examples from academia and industry how this can be achieved.
Chair: Serge Villemure, Director, Research Grants & Scholarships, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Canada
Rapporteur: Jennifer R. Cohen PhD, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, Office of International & Integrative Activities, National Science Foundation (NSF), USA
- The Value of Mentoring: Impact of Lack of Access to Mentoring for Women
Faye Crosby PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Provost of Cowell College, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA - To the Top through the Maze
Simone Buitendijk PhD, MPH, MD, Vice-rector Magnificus and member of the Board of the University of Leiden, Netherlands, Professor and Chair of Women’s and Family Health at the Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands, Europe - Diverse Workforce Leads to Excellence
Ray Upton, Vice President and general manager, Americas Sales and Applications team, Texas Instruments, USA - Leadership Starts Early: the Impact of Role Models
Tamara Franz-Odendaal PhD, Associate Professor, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC - CRSNG) Atlantic Chair for Women in Science and Engineering, Canada
2.2 Empowering Voices of Early-Career Scientists
This session will discuss the importance of the early career stage: the decisions made here can have huge consequences for the evolution of future career direction. Understanding the science landscape, and how the science system functions, is essential to effective career development. Support measures that make this knowledge - of opportunities and obstacles – less opaque can facilitate more informed and effective career development decisions.
Chair: Risa Sargent PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Canada
Rapporteur: Joel Kelly PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of British Columbia, Canada
- The Value and Role of Post-doctoral Periods in Shaping and Securing Sustainable Career Pathways
Louise Harvey PhD, Postdoctoral Fello , Douglas Institute Research Centre, Canada - Single discipline or interdisciplinary career directions: what is best and most practical at early career stage?
Ingrid Kuri Alonso PhD, Professor of Law and Economics, Latin American and Caribbean Law and Economics Association, Mexico - My pathway into an interdisciplinary research career
Leah Rubin PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA - Woman on the verge: transitioning from graduate school to the 'real world'
Anita Melnyk PhD Candidate, University of Ottawa, Canada - Preparing for an academic career in Geoscience
Alexis K. Ault PhD, National Science Foundation (NSF) Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geoscience, University of Arizona, USA - Reflections of a mid-career climate scientist
Kim Cobb PhD, Associate Professor, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
2.3 Integrating Gender into Research Content and Methods
The idea that science is gender neutral has been challenged by the evidence of omissions of sex/gender as a variable in study design; gender bias in research analysis; and under- or non-reporting of data analyzed by sex. Speakers in this session will demonstrate why and how these practices should be changed to improve both quality and efficacy of research and innovation.
Chair: Julia Tagüeña PhD, Deputy General Director of Scientific Development, The National Council on Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACYT), Mexico
Rapporteur: Sarah Miller PhD, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering, National Science Foundation (NSF), USA
- Consensus on studying sex and gender differences in pain and analgesia
Joel D. Greenspan PhD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Neural and Pain Sciences, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, USA - Gendered Innovations: Tools of Sex and Gender Analysis for Research
Londa Schiebinger PhD, John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science, Stanford University and Director, Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment project, USA - Gender, Masculinity and Men’s Health
John Oliffe PhD, Professor, School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Canada - Institutionalization of Gender Perspective at the University
Jennifer Ann Cooper PhD, Professor, Post Graduate School of Economics, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
2.4 Improving Career Life Balance
Science work practices and traditions are rooted in times when women were largely excluded from research and innovation and their own as well as the society’s expectations were vastly different to the realities of today. Providing women and men with the same opportunities to do scientific work and have time for family life and other commitments should be entirely possible in the 21st century. Speakers will demonstrate how this can be done.
Chair: Elizabeth Pollitzer PhD, Director, Portia Ltd, UK, Europe
Rapporteur: Renatta Tull PhD, Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Student Development and Postdoctoral Affairs at the University of Maryland, USA
2.5 Creating and Sustaining Networks
No scientist can work in isolation and professional networks form an essential component of how science is done today. Speakers will demonstrate a variety of successful approaches from linking different fields and sectors to using networks as tools for professional empowerment of women and opportunities to influence attitudes to their advancement.
Chair: Sophie D’Amours PhD, Vice Rector, Research and Innovation, Université Laval, Canada
Rapporteur: David Proctor PhD, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, Office of the Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation (NSF), USA
2.6 Transforming the Role of Gender in STEM and in Communication
Both in terms of the deliverer’s and receiver’s perception, the session will explore whether women communicate differently than men, and whether the public perceives communication by men and women differently. Chair: Shari Graydon, Communications consultant and journalist, USA
Rapporteur: Susan Pell PhD, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, Office of Legislative and Public Affairs, National Science Foundation (NSF), USA
- Gender and Race in Film and TV Content
Stacey Smith PhD, Associate Professor, School of Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, USA (video) - Access and participation of women in the Media Industry
Aimée Vega Montiel PhD, Professor and the Coordinator of the foreign graduate program of Communication studies, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico - Cultural diversity & communications for men & women
Catherine Mavriplis PhD, NSERC Pratt & Whitney Canada Chair for Women in Science and Engineering and Associate Professor, Facultyof Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada - The Biases that Bind Us: How Stereotypes Constrain Women's Experience in STEM
Toni Schmader PhD, Canada Research Chair in Social Psychology, Professor at University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada
2.7 Ensuring Inclusive Excellence through Merit/Peer Review
Peer review forms the most important component of effective science knowledge making, but the fairness and efficiency of the process has been under scrutiny for some time and in particular the potential for gender bias. Speakers will demonstrate how the peer review process as practiced in the funding of research and in publishing can avoid known gender issues and improve transparency, quality and fairness of the decisions made.
Chair: Stephen P. Meacham PhD, Senior Staff Associate, Office of International and Integrative Activities, National Science Foundation, USA
Rapporteur: Frances Bonier PhD, Assistant Professor, Queen's University, Canada
- Merit Review at the National Science Foundation
Kelvin K. Droegemeier PhD, Vice President for Research, University of Oklahoma and Vice Chairman, National Science Board, USA (video) - European Peer Review Guide
Pär Omling PhD, President, European Science Foundation and vice-President, Science Europe, Europe - Peer review policies and practices, by funding agencies and journals
Isabelle Blain, Vice-President, Research Grants and Scholarships Directorate, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Canada - Including Women and Minority Groups in Clinical Research
Elaine Sierra‐Rivera PhD, Scientific Review Officer, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, USA - Epistemological Diversity and Procedural Fairness in Peer Review
Michèle Lamont PhD, Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Harvard University, USA
2.8 Enabling Organizational Systems and Processes
Structural changes to improve established institutional practices and process, to ensure that institutions treat their female and male researches in the same way, are often needed and have been achieved in many cases, contributing to better research cultures that do not unfairly benefit the advancement of men. Speakers will demonstrate examples of these successes, which others can follow and make such changes more widely accepted and adopted.
Chair:Elizabeth Croft PhD, Professor and NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering (BC/Yukon Region), University of British Columbia, Canada
Rapporteur: Emily Grumbling PhD, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, Office of the Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National, National Science Foundation (NSF), USA
2.9 Pioneers Trailblazing the Future
The visible progress to advance women and women’s needs in science, which has been made in the last decade, was made possible in big measure by the influential actions of particular individuals working within the science system who used their leadership positions to create a vision and the right conditions to carry out actions capable of challenging established cultures and attitudes to gender roles. These trailblazing the future pioneers are honored in this session for their influential efforts, and to encourage others to follow their lead.
Chair: Kelly Mack PhD, Vice President for Undergraduate Science Education and Executive Director, Project Kaleidoscope, Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), USA
Rapporteur: Rosemarie Filart, MD, MPH, Medical Officer, ORWH
- Open Science for Agriculture and Nutrition
Catherine E. Woteki PhD, Under Secretary, Chief Scientist, United States Department of Agriculture, USA - WISEST—Women in Scholarship, Engineering, Science and Technology
Margaret Ann Armour PhD, Associate Dean (Diversity), Faculty of Science, University of Alberta, Canada - Establishing the first Gender and Medicine institute
Vera Regitz-Zagrosek MD, Director, Institute of Gender in Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany, Europe - Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD)
Mayra de la Torre PhD, full professor, Department of Food Sciences, the Centro de Investigacion en Alimentacion y Desarrollo A.C. in Sonora, Mexico
12.0 Creating Bridges with European Funders
Making science endeavor more sensitive and responsive to the needs and talents of both women and men requires cross-boarder and cross-institutional collaborations at a number of levels, from setting out research priorities to creating research environment that recognizes and prevents gender inequalities and biases in knowledge production, application and communication. Speakers from major European research funding bodies will discuss the progress made in Europe and the lessons learnt. This session will help identify opportunities to create institutional bridges enabling more effective progress in the future.
Chair: Ines Sanchez Madriaga Arch., PhD, MSc, Director, Women and Science Unit, Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Researach and Innovation, Spain, Europe
Rapporteur: Anne Pépin PhD, Director, Mission for the Place of Women at CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France, Europe
Panel of European Funders
- European Research Council (ERC)
Isabelle Vernos PhD, ICREA Research Professor, Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG, Spain), Member of the European Research Council (ERC) scientific Council, Europe - Research Council of Norway (RCN)
Hans Borchgrevink MD, Special Adviser, International Staff, The Research Council Norway (RCN), Norway, Europe - German Research Foundation (DFG)
Eva Reichwein PhD, In-House Counsel, Quality Assurance and Programme Development, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany, Europe - Research Councils United Kingdom (RCUK)
Rosie Beales, Research Careers and Diversity at Research Councils UK, Research Council UK (RCUK), UK, Europe
PLEANRY SESSION: Gender roadmap for research and innovation systems. Addressing the needs of different stakeholders
The reports presented by Session Chairs will convey the key points and actions recommended for inclusion in the overall Roadmap, for all relevant stakeholders to use in their spheres of influence.
Chair: Kim Allen, CEO, Engineers Canada
- Introduction of Chair
Betty Shanahan CAE, F.SWE, Executive Director & CEO, Society of Women Engineers (SWE), USA - Reports from Roadmap Parallel Sessions + Debate
Chairs from parallel sessions, report on key conclusions arrived at in their session - Looking Forward
Nancy Cantor PhD, Chancellor, Syracuse University