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One-third of Indian STEM conferences have no women

Women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics faculty are rare, and women speaking at conferences are even rarer.
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  1. Dyani Lewis

In the past three years, 35% of all science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) conferences held in India featured only male speakers, according to a preprint1 posted on the bioRxiv server on 27 October. Female researchers in India are outnumbered by their male counterparts in STEM fields, but their under-representation is even more pronounced on the conference circuit.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03519-z

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  1. Muralidhar, S. & Ananthanarayanan, V. Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.26.564078 (2023).

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