SUPPORT WOMEN IN ARACHNOLOGY

About us

We are an organization that aims to study gender bias in Science, particularly in Arachnology and propose actions to mitigate this structural problem. We want to break down barriers, end discrimination, and disprove stereotypes .

SWA founders

SWA MeMbers

PhD Candidate Juliana Figueiredo de Lima

Undergrad. Lauren Elisa Flores Correa

PhD Candidate

María Florencia Nadal

PhD Regiane Saturnino

PhD Maria de Fátima da Rocha Dias

BSc Milena O. de Melo Moreira

guidelines Of SWA

• Explain the gender bias in our community.
• Investigate and understand better the particularities of bias, its implications and impacts on our community and careers of arachnologists.
• Publish scientific articles about biases.
• Promote and give visibility to female arachnologists, their work and their impact on the area.
• Propose debates at scientific events and political guidelines to our societies, leaders of research groups, committees and editorial bodies related to our community.
• Request transparency in the expertise metrics used for selections in activities that promote the careers of arachnologists: magazine editors, lecturers, symposiumists, etc. And also hiring for professional positions.

• Create a code of conduct with guidelines for expected behavior in academic environments (universities, congresses) and the consequences of inappropriate behavior.
• Create a procedure for reporting inappropriate behavior or harassment.
• Develop policy guidelines that are applied to scholarships/grants/contests that aim to minimize gender bias in order to correct and increase the inclusion and presence of arachnologists.
• Propose exclusive policies for the creation of notices for scholarships/grants/contests that address the reduction of this accentuated bias with motherhood, in order to contain the effects of massive evasion of women mothers, adjusting the curriculum with these considerations for a fairer dispute.
• Propose policies that facilitate the participation of mothers in congresses/symposiums/conferences in order to facilitate their return to arachnology research activities.

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Affirmative Actions to Promote and Support Underrepresented Groups in Science Events

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EVENTS & Grants

International mobility and participation in scientific events are crucial for success in Academia. One of our goals is to encourage participation of female scientists in events. Actions that should be taken:

• Reserve a percentage of oral presentations for women
  
• Propose prizes in the student competition for work done by women
  
• Scholarships or becas to pay for women's registrations
  

We Organized a Symposium in VI CLA

We Proposed Affirmative Actions to the Organization of 22 ICA

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