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APPENDIX A

Workshop Agenda

Blueprint for the Future: Framing the Issues of Women in Science in a Global Context — A Workshop

11:30 am — 11:45 am   Welcome and Overview of Workshop
    Allan Fisher, Vice President, Laureate Education, Inc., and
    Member, Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and
    Medicine
    Carol Stoel, Program Officer, Division of Graduate Education,
    Education and Human Resources Directorate, National Science
    Foundation
    Catherine Didion, Director, Committee on Women in Science,
    Engineering, and Medicine
11:45 am — 1:00 pm   Panel I—Cross-Cultural Issues:
   

•  Knowledge and Data Sources

   

Wendy Hansen, Senior Researcher, University of
Maastricht
Angelica Salvi Del Pero, Administrator (Gender) Social
Policy Division, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development

   

•  Socio-Historical Trends

   

Mariko Ogawa, Professor, History of Science and
Science Studies, Mie University, Japan

   

•  Higher Education

   

Anne MacLachlan, Senior Researcher, Center for
Studies in Higher Education, University of California,
Berkeley
Cheryl Leggon, Associate Professor, School of Public
Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology

   

•  Workforce Segregation

   

Alice Abreu, Regional Coordinator, Rio+20 Initiative,
International Council for Science

Suggested Citation:"APPENDIX A: Workshop Agenda." National Research Council. 2012. Blueprint for the Future: Framing the Issues of Women in Science in a Global Context: Summary of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13306.
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Discussant: Anneke Sengers, Scientist Emeritus, National Institute of Standards and Technology and Chair, Working Group on
Women, InterAmerican Network of Academies of Sciences

1:00 am — 2:15 pm   Panel II—Focal Disciplines:
   

•  Computer Sciences

   

Robert Lichter, Principal, Merrimack Consultants, LLC
Willie Pearson, Jr., Professor, School of History,
Technology, and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology

   

•  Chemical Science

   

Joanne Cohoon, Associate Professor, Science,
Technology and Society Department, School of
Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia

   

•  Mathematics and Statistics

   

Keith Crank, Assistant Director, Research and Graduate
Education, American Statistical Association
Ingrid Daubechies,
Professor, Duke University and President, International Mathematical Union

   

Discussants: Lilian Wu, Program Executive, Global University Programs, International Business Machines Corporation, and Chair, Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine; Allan Fisher, Vice President, Laureate Education Inc., and Member, Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine; and Bradley Miller, Director, Office of International Activities, American Chemical Society



2:15 pm — 2:30 pm   Break
 
2:30 pm — 3:45 pm   Panel III—Cross-Cutting Themes:
   

•  Role of Professional Societies

   

Lisa M. Frehill, Senior Program Officer, the National
Research Council

   

•  Promising Programs

   

Daryl Chubin, Director, Center for Advancing Science and Engineering Capacity, American Association for the Advancement of Science

   

•  Promising Policies

   

Connie L. McNeely, Professor of Public Policy, and Co-Director, Center for Science and Technology Policy, George Mason University Cheryl Leggon, Associate Professor, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology

   

Discussants: Jessie DeAro, Program Director, Alliances For Graduate Education and the Professoriate, Education and Human

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Resources Directorate, National Science Foundation; Kathie Bailey-Mathae, Director, Board on International Scientific Organizations, The National Academies; and Patricia Taboada-Serrano, Early-Career Representative, Women for Science Working Group, InterAmerican Network of Academies of Sciences



3:45 pm — 4:30 pm   Concluding Discussion
Shirley M. Malcom, Co-Chair, Gender Advisory Board, United Nations Commission on Science and Technology Development, and Head, Education and Human Resources, American Association for the Advancement of Science
4:30 pm   Adjournment
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The scientific work of women is often viewed through a national or regional lens, but given the growing worldwide connectivity of most, if not all, scientific disciplines, there needs to be recognition of how different social, political, and economic mechanisms impact women's participation in the global scientific enterprise. Although these complex sociocultural factors often operate in different ways in various countries and regions, studies within and across nations consistently show inverse correlations between levels in the scientific and technical career hierarchy and the number of women in science: the higher the positions, the fewer the number of women. Understanding these complex patterns requires interdisciplinary and international approaches. In April 2011, a committee overseen by the National Academies' standing Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine (CWSEM) convened a workshop entitled, "Blueprint for the Future: Framing the Issues of Women in Science in a Global Context" in Washington, D.C.

CWSEM's goals are to coordinate, monitor, and advocate action to increase the participation of women in science, engineering, and medicine. The scope of the workshop was limited to women's participation in three scientific disciplines: chemistry, computer science, mathematics, and statistics. The workshop presentations came from a group of scholars and professionals who have been working for several years on documenting, analyzing, and interpreting the status of women in selected technical fields around the world. Examination of the three disciplines-chemistry, computer science, and mathematics and statistics-can be considered a first foray into collecting and analyzing information that can be replicated in other fields.

The complexity of studying science internationally cannot be underestimated, and the presentations demonstrate some of the evidentiary and epistemological challenges that scholars and professionals face in collecting and analyzing data from many different countries and regions. Blueprint for the Future: Framing the Issues of Women in Science in a Global Context summarizes the workshop presentations, which provided an opportunity for dialogue about the issues that the authors have been pursuing in their work to date.

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