Gender equality journal club

On the initiative of the Paris Brain Institute (ICM), the neuroscientists of Bordeaux, Marseille, Nancy and Paris meet each month to discuss an article on gender equality and unconscious bias.

Every 3rd Wednesday of the month at noon on Zoom: https://icm-institute.zoom.us/j/97645478755

March 20: Tal Seidel, Nancy
Presented paper: Exploring Gender Bias in Six Key Domains of Academic Science: An Adversarial Collaboration. Ceci SJ, Kahn S, Williams WM. Psychol. Sci. Public Interest, 2023. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15291006231163179

February 21: Sarka Jelinkova, Bordeaux Neurocampus
Results of 2022 gender equality survey in Bordeaux Neurocampus.
From April to June 2022, a questionnaire was submitted to the Bordeaux Neurocampus community. The survey questionnaire is an adaptation of a questionnaire developed by the RESET 5 consortium. We will also discuss the perspective of the main French public institutions for short comparison where available (data from CNRS and Inserm). https://www.bordeaux-neurocampus.fr/en/results-of-2022-gender-equality-survey/

January 17: Anna Montagnini, The Neuroscience Institute of la Timone, Marseille
Presented paper: A European perspective on structural barriers to women’s career progression in neuroscience. Bourke, A.M., Spanò, T. & Schuman, E.M. Nat Neurosci 26, 1842–1847 (2023). https://doi-org.insb.bib.cnrs.fr/10.1038/s41593-023-01467-5

December 13: Radhia Kacher, ICM, Paris
Presented paper: Sexism in academia is bad for science and a waste of public funding (Boivin, N., Täuber, S., Beisiegel, U. et al. Nat Rev Mater (2023), DOI: 10.1038/s41578-023-00624-3). Higher education and research institutions are critical to the well-being and success of societies, meaning their financial support is strongly in the public interest. At the same time, value-for-money principles demand that such investment delivers. Unfortunately, these principles are currently violated by one of the biggest sources of public funding inefficiency: sexism.

November 15: Violetta Zujovic, ICM, Paris
Presented paper: Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty (Science Advances – Vol. 9, #42, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adi2205). A study on how toxic workplaces are the main reason women are leaving academic jobs.