[CogSci] International Gender Gap Project: International Survey Now Underway

[Terry Regier]

 I am forwarding the following survey announcement, and request for
participation, at the request of Kathie Bailey, Director of the Board on
International Scientific Organizations, at The National Academies of
Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

Twitter: @GenderGapSTEM

The 2018 Global Survey of Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Scientists
is currently underway.  The survey is part of an international
interdisciplinary project called “A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in
Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to
Reduce It?” Eleven partners, supported by the International Council for
Science (ICSU), are seeking to better understand the problems mathematical,
computing, and natural science academics and practitioners are facing
around the world.

As described on the Gender Gap project homepage (
https://icsugendergapinscience.org), “Currently, existing data on
participation of women in the mathematical and natural sciences is
scattered, outdated, and inconsistent across regions and research fields.
The project will provide evidence to support the making of informed
decisions on science policy. Temporal trends will be included, as the
situation of women in science is constantly evolving, sometimes with some
negative developments. Data will be collected via both a joint global
survey and a bibliographic study of publication patterns. The survey is
planned to reach 45,000 respondents in more than 130 countries using at
least 10 languages, while the study of publication patterns will analyze
comprehensive metadata sources corresponding to publications of more than
500,000 scientists since 1970. Contrasts and common ground across regions
and cultures, less developed and highly developed countries, men and women,
mathematical and natural sciences, will be highlighted.”

The Global Survey can be accessed at
http://statisticalresearchcenter.org/global18.  The data is being collected
by the Statistical Research Center of the American Institute of Physics.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) is the
U.S. member to ICSU and many of the international scientific unions that
are participating in this project.
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