Resources

This list was originally assembled by Anne Churchland with the aim of highlighting female systems neuroscientists, with input from Yael Niv and Adrienne Fairhall and is now being managed by Lamiae Abdeladim to aid in choosing speakers for the Cosyne and other conferences.

This review article posits that the scarcity of women at the upper levels of organizations is a consequence of gender bias in evaluations. It is proposed that gender stereotypes and the expectations they produce about both what women are like (descriptive) and how they should behave (prescriptive) can result in devaluation of their performance, denial of credit to them for their successes, or their penalization for being competent.

Denmark is among the world's leading scientific countries in terms of output, citations and funding. Despite this, and the country's renowned high level of equality, its gender balance in science lags embarrassingly behind that in many other EU countries.

This paper develops theory about the conditions under which cultural diversity enhances or detracts from work group functioning.

This session outlines the ways in which we can better appreciate different social identities and facilitate their intersection in the laboratory and in the workplace, and (re)define who gets invited/included as an expert.