Gender and career-stage distribution at EGU General Assemblies
Gender and career-stage distribution at EGU General Assemblies
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DOI：
10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-21785
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发表时间：
2020-03
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
E. Toth;C. Jesus-Rydin;A. Montanari
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作者：
E. Toth;C. Jesus-Rydin;A. Montanari
欧洲地球科学联盟 (EGU) 是欧洲地球、行星和空间科学研究的领先组织。一年一度的 EGU 大会是欧洲规模最大、最著名的地球科学盛会，2019 年吸引了来自世界各地的 16,000 多名科学家。本次演讲旨在展示上一届（2015 年至 2019 年）EGU 大会 (GA) 性别和职业阶段分布的结果。 数据和统计数据不仅会提供出席人数的数据和统计数据，还会提供大会中角色的数据和统计数据，即作者、召集人、演讲者。正如预期的那样，考虑到地球科学作为男性主导领域的学术历史，可以观察到性别差距，EGU GA 出席人数的总体性别细分约为三分之一女性和三分之二男性；另一方面，女性参与者的比例非常小，但多年来不断增加（不仅是在职业生涯早期的科学家中）。事实上，女性与会者的比例从 2015 年的 32.6% 上升到 2018 年的 33.8%（2019 年的比例更高，但那一年提供性别信息的人数从 17% 下降到 30%，因此我们认为去年的性别分析信息较少）。此外，在考虑组织角色时，女性召集人的比例增长更为陡峭：事实上， 2018 年，女性召集人比例为 30.1%，与女性参会者总数的比例非常接近，而 3 年前，这一比例约为 25.9%。 从职业阶段来看，早期职业科学家在全体参会者中的比例在过去几年大幅上升（从 2015 年的 43% 到 2019 年的 52%），同样在这种情况下，早期职业召集人的比例也急剧上升（从 2015 年的 30% 增加到 2019 年的 43%）。对召集人数量的分析表明，即使仍然存在男性和职业中期或高级科学家的倾斜，在过去几年中，在 EGU 主要活动的组织中的关键角色方面，性别和职业阶段的平衡有了显着改善。尽管召集人方面有这样的改善，但联盟内部肯定可以做更多的事情，并且还将尝试提供建设性的指示，以进一步采取措施，实现为不同性别和职业阶段的研究人员提供平等机会的目标。
The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is the leading organisation for Earth, planetary and space science research in Europe. The annual EGU General Assembly is the largest and most prominent European geosciences event, attracting over 16,000 scientists from all over the world in the year 2019. This presentation aims to present the results from gender and career stage distribution at the last (2015 to 2019) EGU General Assemblies (GA).  Data and statistics will be presented not only on the attendance, but also to the role in the general assembly, i.e. author, convener, presenter.As expected, given the academic history of the geosciences as a male - dominated field, a gender gap is observed, with an overall gender breakdown of EGU GA’s attendance of about one third of women and two thirds of men; on the other hand, the fraction of female attendees is very slightly but constantly increasing in the years (and not only among early-career scientists). The percentage of female attendees in fact passed from 32.6% in 2015 to 33.8% in 2018 (the percentage in 2019 was even greater, but in that year the number of those who provided gender information dropped from 17% to 30%, so we consider the last year the less informative for the gender analysis).In addition, when looking at organisational roles, much steeper is the increase in the fraction of female conveners: in fact the percentage of female conveners was 30.1% in 2018, that is much closer to that of the overall female attendees, whereas it was about 25.9% only 3 years earlier.Looking at career stages, the percentage of early-career scientists among the overall attendees is substantially increased in the last years (from 43% in 2015 to 52% in 2019), and also in this case, the fraction of early-career conveners steeply raised too (from 30% in 2015 to 43% in 2019).The analysis on the number of conveners, even if there is still a skew towards male and mid-career or senior scientists, shows that there has been a noticeable improvement in the balance of gender and career-stage over the last years in terms of key-roles in the organisation of the main EGU event.Despite such improvement in term of convenorship, more can certainly be done inside the Union, and an attempt to provide constructive indications to further steps to the target of giving equal opportunities to researchers across gender and career-stage will also be given.