scholarly journals Embedding gender equality into institutional strategy

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute ◽  
Women In Science ◽  
International Level ◽  
Sanger Institute ◽  
Institutional Strategy ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
The Many ◽  
Key Participants

The SiS (Sex in Science) Programme on the WGC (Wellcome Genome Campus) was established in 2011. Key participants include the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, EMB-EBI (EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute), Open Targets and Elixir. The key objectives are to catalyse cultural change, develop partnerships, communicate activities and champion our women in science work at a national and international level (http://www.sanger.ac.uk/about/sex-science). In this paper, we highlight some of the many initiatives that have taken place since 2013, to address gender inequality at the highest levels; the challenges we have faced and how we have overcome these, and the future direction of travel.

Women break down the barriers to the Vietnamese social sciences and humanities

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quan-Hoang Vuong
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Middle Income Country ◽  
Women In Science ◽  
Income Country ◽  
The West ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Low And Middle Income

Valian rightly made a case for better recognition of women in science during the Nobel week in October 2018 (Valian, 2018). However, it seems most published views about gender inequality in Nature focused on the West. This correspondence shifts the focus to women in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) in a low- and middle-income country (LMIC).

scholarly journals The Many Faces of Gender Inequality at Work

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 623-628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Lup ◽  
T Alexandra Beauregard ◽  
Maria Adamson
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
The Many

Women in science: the need for a global cultural change

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (S367) ◽  
pp. 281-285
Author(s):  
Karen Hallberg
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Women In Science ◽  
Cultural Aspect ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Cultural Maturity ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis paper summarizes the talk given at this conference in which the cultural aspect of the low participation of women in science, mainly in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) areas, is emphazised. A few personal recollections will be presented and some some striking numbers to illustrate the current situation will be given. In addition, some thought provoking ideas on what is known as “neurosexism” are explicited and a tribute is made to three women that overcame the challenges posed to them in different times in history (including current times) and helped paved the way to the new generation. However, there is still a long way to go. The inclusion of women and of other relegated sectors of society in scientific and technological activities is an important pending issue which will be achieved when our society as a whole reaches the necessary cultural maturity.

Coda

2020 ◽  
pp. 309-342
Author(s):  
Helen Moore
Keyword(s):  
Don Quixote ◽  
Cultural Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
The Many ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Taking its cue from the Victorian periodical debates characterizing realism as a crocodile and romance as a monster or ‘catawampus’, this chapter examines the role played by Amadis in early discussions of what the novel was, or should be; how it had developed; and where its future direction lay. For literary historians, Amadis constituted a bridge between the newly constructed ‘medieval’ and the emergent ‘modern’. Philosopher-theorists (Bakhtin) and novelists (Nabokov) alike continued to be fascinated by the relationship of Amadis to Don Quixote and its implications for theories of the novel. Novelists themselves (Bulwer Lytton, Ouida, and Thackeray) enlisted Amadis in their critique of modern masculinity. The final iteration of Amadis in English takes the form of chivalric compilations and abridgements for children; this concluding transformation proves to be emblematic of the many varieties of cultural work into which romance can be enlisted.

scholarly journals Sir John Edward Sulston CH. 27 March 1942—6 March 2018

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 ◽  
pp. 421-447
Author(s):  
Robert H. Waterston ◽  
Georgina Ferry
Keyword(s):  
Cell Fate ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Cell Lineage ◽  
Genome Project ◽  
Biomedical Ethics ◽  
Sanger Institute ◽  
Large Scale Data ◽  
Founding Director

In 2002 Sir John Sulston shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his contribution to understanding the genetic control of cell fate during the development of the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans . However, it was his position as one of the leaders of the international and publicly funded Human Genome Project that brought him to public prominence. Both his work on the worm cell lineage and his later commitment to genome sequencing as founding director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute stemmed from his conviction that investing in large-scale data collection would have long-term benefits for future scientific discovery. He was a key figure in promoting the principle, now widely accepted, that genomic data should be universally and freely shared. After retiring from his post at the Sanger Institute he engaged with organizations with interests in biomedical ethics and global equality. He was a loyal and supportive colleague to many, delighting in the international collegiality of the ‘worm community’, of which he was a founding member.

The Retention of Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: A Framework for Persistence

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffry L. White ◽  
G.H. Massiha
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Minority Women ◽  
Women In Science ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The Many

<p>Women make up 47% of the total U.S. workforce, but are less represented in engineering, computer sciences, and the physical sciences. In addition, race and ethnicity are salient factors and minority women comprise fewer than 1 in 10 scientist or engineer. In this paper, a review of the literature is under taken that explores the many challenges women encounter when pursing a career in the sciences. It includes a review of the national landscape and discussion of the guiding general retention theories. Finally it proposes a conceptual framework for persistence and proffers a number of research questions designed to delve deeper into the under representation phenomenon.</p>

Part II UN Core Conventions on Transnational Organised Crime, 8 The UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons 2000

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heintze Hans-Joachim ◽  
Lülf Charlotte
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Transnational Crime ◽  
Organised Crime ◽  
International Level ◽  
Trafficking In Persons ◽  
Criminal Networks ◽  
International Response ◽  
Legal Foundation ◽  
The Many ◽  
Modern Day Slavery

As ‘modern day slavery’ and one of the many forms of transnational crime, human trafficking demands an international response. The necessity of countering human trafficking comprehensively becomes apparent when looking at crimes committed, the numbers of people trafficked, and the billions criminal networks make by exploiting the vulnerable. As the pertinent legal instrument at the international level the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons can be considered the legal foundation and impetus for regional and national anti-trafficking legislation and implementing measures. This chapter analyses the UN Protocol and its regulations in detail and critically reflects on its implementation.

scholarly journals Evolving the future: Toward a science of intentional change

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 395-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Sloan Wilson ◽  
Steven C. Hayes ◽  
Anthony Biglan ◽  
Dennis D. Embry
Keyword(s):  
Phenotypic Plasticity ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Social Constructivism ◽  
Genetic Recombination ◽  
Behavioral Sciences ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Inheritance System ◽  
Intentional Change ◽  
Large Populations ◽  
The Many

AbstractHumans possess great capacity for behavioral and cultural change, but our ability to manage change is still limited. This article has two major objectives: first, to sketch a basic science of intentional change centered on evolution; second, to provide examples of intentional behavioral and cultural change from the applied behavioral sciences, which are largely unknown to the basic sciences community.All species have evolved mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity that enable them to respond adaptively to their environments. Some mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity count as evolutionary processes in their own right. The human capacity for symbolic thought provides an inheritance system having the same kind of combinatorial diversity as does genetic recombination and antibody formation. Taking these propositions seriously allows an integration of major traditions within the basic behavioral sciences, such as behaviorism, social constructivism, social psychology, cognitive psychology, and evolutionary psychology, which are often isolated and even conceptualized as opposed to one another.The applied behavioral sciences include well-validated examples of successfully managing behavioral and cultural change at scales ranging from individuals to small groups to large populations. However, these examples are largely unknown beyond their disciplinary boundaries, for lack of a unifying theoretical framework. Viewed from an evolutionary perspective, they are examples of managing evolved mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity, including open-ended processes of variation and selection.Once the many branches of the basic and applied behavioral sciences become conceptually unified, we are closer to a science of intentional change than one might think.

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