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How to banish manels and manferences from scientific meetings

A Nature analysis finds that several fields of science are moving away from male-dominated conferences and panels — but it’s easy to slip back into old habits.
  1. Holly Else
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Nancy Amato didn’t want to go to Las Vegas. In 2015, it was the chosen venue for one of the main events in her field — the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). But she and other women involved in organizing it felt that the city, famed for its strip clubs, was unsuitable. Among the first achievements of the organizing committee — which that year was all-female — was moving the conference to Seattle in Washington.

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Nature 573, 184-186 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02658-6

Richard Van Noorden and Emiliano Rodríguez Mega assisted with data analysis.

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