BiasWatchIndia
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Documenting women representation & combating gender-biased panels in Indian STEM conferences @vaishananth + @polybiotique
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If you are in Bangalore on April 30th and are interested in number theory, please attend our event: Number Theory Day in Bangalore IISc Bangalore.
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The 2nd edition of 'Leelavati's Daughters' is coming. The revised edition now also includes biographies of particle physicist Bibha Choudhuri and developmental biologist Leela Mulherkar-Golay. Congratulations to the editors Rohini Godbole and Ram Ramaswamy and IASc, Bengaluru
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Only 13.5% of India’s STEM faculty are women, finds study. Worst in institutes like IITs, IISc
Madhurita Goswami Madhurita Goswami reports
#ThePrinrScience
theprint.in/science/only-1…
Laureline Logiaco Yogesh Gadgil Deepthi Mahishi BiasWatchIndia I was thinking about figure 4 in this study: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
At least in this large dataset in US, the biggest reason for tenured women faculty to leave seems to be climate/workplace environment.
Makes total sense 😬
Laureline Logiaco Yogesh Gadgil Deepthi Mahishi BiasWatchIndia Thanks Laureline Logiaco🤗. Dramatic correlations and I had missed this study but now recall that it (or a related study) was referred by Prof. Shobhana in her talk on “why it’s still difficult to be a women in stem in India” a few years ago.
It’s a great talk:
youtube.com/watch?v=vtPdgn…
Yogesh Gadgil Deepthi Mahishi BiasWatchIndia TheLifeofScience.com wrote an entire book going deep into the numbers. Do check it out amazon.in/Lab-Hopping-Na…. The book also cites many 'high-quality' studies from the Indian context. Hope this helps - all the best!
Yogesh Gadgil Deepthi Mahishi BiasWatchIndia I also don’t understand the point, sorry.
The article you shared unnecessarily imo calls a straightforward thing a ‘paradox.’ Women will leave science if academia is crap for them and if they can do something else that is less crap 🤷🏾♀️
Yogesh Gadgil Deepthi Mahishi BiasWatchIndia The article above calculates the proportion of women faculty, and the one you shared is about STEM graduates. India women science PhDs are also quite high (UGC 2015 reports 44.2%), but faculty numbers are still ~16ish%. Understanding why that is important: Numbers are important.
Documentation of women’s inclusion in Indian academia and conferences by BiasWatchIndia reveals the scale of underrepresentation of women across science, technology, engineering and mathematics:
nature.com/articles/s4200…
Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan (She/Her) Shruti Muralidhar
Your read for the day - a careful enumeration of the ways Indian academia fails women academics and, importantly, a number of good suggestions for how to change things, from Vaishnavi Ananthanarayanan (She/Her) and Shruti Muralidhar
nature.com/articles/s4200…
An important analysis on women representation in #STEM by Shruti Shruti Muralidhar and Vaishnavi, founders of BiasWatchIndia. A similar effort in estimating the implicit biases might take us closer to the root.
👀 Curious about the % of women in STEM in India?
🧵Sharing some numbers from this BiasWatchIndia study 🤓
% women faculty members in STEM: 16.6% (data from 98 universities)
% women ECR faculty amongst total women faculty: 46.3% (data from 495 women in 45 universities)
Happy to see this online!
This report contains our analysis of BiasWatchIndia 's data from 2020-23. Some stark statistics here. I hope all stakeholders, incl unis & funding agencies take notice and importantly, action.
Thanks to Manuel Breuer for a smooth editorial process!