Welcome to the website of the Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science

In order to promote gender equality in science, a number of international scientific organizations who took part in the project A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It? wish to act together to further promote this goal by continuing and enlarging the work accomplished so far, in particular by supporting women and girls’ equal access to science education, fostering equal opportunity and treatment for females in their careers. For this purpose, they established a Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science (SCGES) in September 2020.

The Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science has a page on Linkedin here.

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Latest News from the Committee

Women in science – global study finds presence without power

The Conversation published an article authored by Marie-Françoise Roy (SCGES) and prepared with Lea Nacache (ISC) and Peter McGrath (IAP). Many colleagues from SCGES, IAP and ISC made contributions that helped shape and improve the report Towards gender equality in scientific organizations: assessment and recommendations .on which this article is based.

Some relevant initiatives for gender equality by five scientific international unions

Find here a page with links to interviews with five scientific international unions. These case studies summarize a number of issues relating to gender equality, as part of the project “Advancing gender equality in scientific organizations” lead jointly by the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), the  International Science Council (ISC) and the Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science…

Towards gender equality in scientific organizations: assessment and recommendations

Academies of science, medicine and engineering, along with international scientific unions, play an important role in shaping scientific agendas, recognizing scientific excellence, and advising policy-makers. In doing so, they influence whose expertise is visible and whose voices are heard in science. Persistent gender gaps within these organizations – relative to the share of women in…

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