#GAReads | How to banish manels and manferences from scientific meetings
“How to banish manels and manferences from scientific meetings”:
A new analysis by Nature suggests that meetings are able to correct a pronounced gender bias at the podium, but that it takes persistent and constant effort to banish the manference.
Our investigation looked at the line-up of invited speakers at key meetings in five disciplines — neuroscience, artificial intelligence (AI), chemistry, geology and microbiology — over the past nine years.