Evaluating the prevalence and quality of conference codes of conduct [Social Sciences]

Efforts to increase inclusion in science face multiple barriers, including cultural and social behaviors in settings such as academic conferences. Conferences are beneficial, but the culture can promote inequities and power differentials that harm historically underrepresented groups. Science suffers when conference culture propagates exclusion and discrimination that leads to attrition...

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - July 22, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Alicia J. Foxx, Rebecca S. Barak, Taran M. Lichtenberger, Lea K. Richardson, Aireale J. Rodgers, Evelyn Webb Williams Tags: Social Sciences Source Type: research