Women in marine mammal science: Breaking down barriers to success.
Saturday October 28
8 am - 5 pm
A full summary of the workshop is below, in addition further information is available on our workshop website
http://wimms.weebly.com/We will post news and updates to the website throughout the next few months.
We look forward to meeting you and engaging with you in Halifax,
Erin Ashe, Amanda Bradford, Frances Robertson, Mridula Srinivasan, and Maria Constanza Marchesi
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Women comprise
approximately half of the Society of Marine Mammalogy’s (SMM) membership
and a similar proportion are first authors in Marine Mammal Science.
However, like other STEM fields, women continue to be underrepresented
in career positions within the field of marine mammal science, in the
SMM, and similar professional societies. In addition to challenges
faced by women seeking higher positions in STEM fields, women face
unique barriers to success when advancing in marine mammal science.
This
workshop seeks first to identify these barriers to success and then to
present strategies that individuals and institutions (including the SMM)
can implement to break the barriers down. Each of the two workshop
components will include a combination of presentations, panel
discussions, and breakout sessions that will feature a diverse group of
women from a range of career stages and countries working in different
sectors of marine mammal science, who can speak to the challenges and
successes they have experienced advancing in the field. The specific
topics will be refined by a survey in advance of the workshop, but are
likely to cover external and internal barriers to seeking professional
opportunities, grant writing, publishing, conducting fieldwork, science
communication, and - building on the foundation established by Hooker et al. 2017 - career-life balance.
The goals of the workshop are to: - Provide a set of tools that women can use to advance their careers in marine mammal science,
- Create a virtual international network for women in marine mammal science to offer support and mentorship,
- Make recommendations to the SMM on formalizing a statement and programs related to diversity and inclusion,
- Prepare a paper for submission to Marine Mammal Science summarizing the content and outcome of the workshop.
While the workshop will focus on women’s leadership in marine mammal science, all conference participants are welcome to attend.--
Frances C. Robertson, PhDMarine Mammal Biologist
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Research Scientist SMRU Consulting
Elevate Post Doctoral Fellow Simon Fraser University
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