What is the Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science (SCGES)?
 
From 2017 to 2019, a number of international scientific organizations, including the IMU, 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?, known as the “Gender Gap in Science Project”. The main goal of the project was to produce sound data about gender gap in science to support the choices of interventions that scientific unions could feasibly undertake. In 2020, the Gender Gap in Science Book was published, presenting the methodology, results, activities and recommendations of the project. The SCGES was formed as a follow-up to this project, reflecting a shared wish among these organizations to continue to act together to further promote gender equality in science. Its aim is to ensure liaison amongst international scientific unions to foster gender equality and the implementation of recommendations of the “Gender Gap in Science Project”.

The SCGES fourth Annual Report has just been published and can be found on the SCGES website.  Compiled by twenty-one of its partners, the report contains information on each union’s situation and the actions that they have undertaken regarding gender equality in the scientific discipline they represent.