[Ramm] [Gendered Innovations] Matera Alliance, Fair Algorithms for Machine Learning, Job in gender and S&T Mexico City, Women's Transit Safety, GREAT--Gender in Cereal Breeding, Nature Human Behavior--empirical link between gender diversity in the workforce and research outcomes

[Londa Schiebinger]

Important new work is appearing!

1. Matera Alliance seeks to improve the applicability of drug trials to women through attention to sex, age, and gene-specific factors in drug therapy. Their website: http://materaalliance.org/. Check out their publications: http://materaalliance.org/publications/
2. Michael Kearns, CS University of Pennsylvania, 1 hour video on "Fair Algorithms for Machine Learning." "Fairness" is about social fairness--related to gender, ethnicity, etc. Video presents an excellent overview and proposes some solutions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmmZHXlPWvI
3. Job available: National Autonomous University of Mexico is offering a tenure track research position on gender, science and technology. They are looking for someone with a PhD and expertise on the relation between gender and knowledge production; proficiency in Spanish is needed. For more details: helena_lopez at cieg.unam.mx<mailto:helena_lopez at cieg.unam.mx>
4. Women and Transit Safety, double issue edited by Vania Ceccato, Professor Department of Urban Planning and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology: double special issue on Women's transit safety<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41300-017-0024-5>
5. GREAT offers a course on Gender Responsive Cereal Grains Breeding. For info on the project: http://myemail.constantcontact.com/News---updates-from-GREAT-.html?soid=1121390954096&aid=Ut4WuEa1sWA
6. Mathias Nielsen, I, and other colleagues are publishing on Monday in Nature Human Behavior: 1.5 million medical papers reveal link between author gender and attention to gender and sex analysis. Importantly, our study establishes an empirical link between gender diversity in the scientific workforce and research outcomes. Our findings show a symbiotic relationship between increasing the numbers of women in academic medicine and enhancing excellence in research by incorporating gender and sex analysis. Hence, our study provides empirical evidence for science policy makers to promote both women's scientific careers and gender and sex analysis in research design. Taken together these objectives support the twin goals of diversity and excellence in science.


All  best, Londa

Professor Londa Schiebinger
Violet Andrews Whittier Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, 2017-2018
John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPST/schiebinger.html
Director, Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment
http://genderedinnovations.stanford.edu<http://genderedinnovations.stanford.edu/>

[Cover of Secret Cures of Slaves by Londa Schiebinger]NEW BOOK
Secret Cures of Slaves: People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World<http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27600>

Book Blog<http://stanfordpress.typepad.com/blog/2017/07/experimenting-with-slave-cures.html>










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