http://mpowir.org Mentoring Physical Oceanography Women to Increase Retention Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:39:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://mpowir.org/closed-ranks-in-oceanography/#comment-2492 LuAnne Thompson Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:39:59 +0000 http://mpowir.org/?p=912#comment-2492 In the first version of the paper which was quite a bit longer, I stated that the percentage of oral presentation could lead to more established scientists, and thus more likedly to be men, being more likely to give talks as opposed to posters. Unfortunately, Nature Geoscience limited the length of the article and we could not include everything that was in the first version. Your suggestion does suggest that session chairs should think about gender balance when putting together the oral versus poster sessions.

]]> http://mpowir.org/closed-ranks-in-oceanography/#comment-2480 Lynne Talley Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:26:06 +0000 http://mpowir.org/?p=912#comment-2480 Bravo to LuAnne, Renellys and Amelia for these statistics. Not that they need more work, but I am wondering if the decrease in number of female oral presentations at meetings such as AGU coincided with the shift to majority poster presentations at those meetings, which means that session committees/chairman are now required to select only a very few of the submissions for oral presentations. If they are making decisions based on apparent “visibility”, or if only “invited” speakers are getting oral slots (and if they are inviting a preponderance of male speakers), then it could lead to this sort of bias.

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