Palmenberg Ann C, Kalejta Robert F
Institute for Molecular Virology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
J Virol. 2021 May 10;95(11). doi: 10.1128/JVI.00224-21. Epub 2021 Mar 24.
Historically, men rather than women have been selected for invited speaking positions at the four prominent virology conference series we have followed since the 1980s. However, the low ratio of female representation in most earlier years (20%, 1982-2010) has shown encouraging improvement (37%, 2011-2017), particularly over the last few years (48% from 2018-2020). We describe this promising rise in inclusion and discuss factors that may help perpetuate and extend this overdue transformation towards gender parity.
从历史上看,自20世纪80年代以来,在我们所关注的四个著名病毒学会议系列中,受邀担任演讲嘉宾的一直是男性而非女性。然而,在大多数早期年份(1982 - 2010年,女性占比20%)中较低的女性代表比例已呈现出令人鼓舞的改善(2011 - 2017年,女性占比37%),尤其是在过去几年(2018 - 2020年,女性占比48%)。我们描述了这种在包容性方面令人期待的增长,并讨论了可能有助于使这种朝着性别平等的姗姗来迟的转变得以延续和扩大的因素。