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The Matilda Effect: How Women in Science are Overcoming this BiasThe Matilda Effect: How Women in Science are Overcoming this Bias
Co-presented by IWF Canada and IWF Panama
DATE: Tuesday, October 8, 2024
TIME: 5:30 pm ET / 4:30 pm Panama
Ada Lovelace was a British mathematical genius. She was the first to recognize that machines could do more than basic calculations; that is they could be "programmed" to do things other than counting or adding etc. and is considered the first computer programmer / engineer and a prophetess of the computer age.
Have you heard of her? Likely not. Why? The Matilda Effect.
The Matilda Effect is a bias against recognizing and recording the achievements of women scientists, whose work is often attributed to their male colleagues.
Does that still happen today? Does it matter? What are the problems and barriers? What can we as women leaders do to change this.
Join us for an inspiring discussion with two world renowned women scientists, Dr. Imogen Coe and Dr. Oris Sanjur.
Panel Moderator: Pauline Couture
Dr. Imogen Coe, a member of IWF Toronto chapter, is a professor of Chemistry and Biology and founding dean of the Faculty of Science, Toronto Metropolitan University and an affiliate scientist at St. Michaels Hospital in Toronto. She is also an award-winning scholar / activist and thought leader in Canada with respect to the integration of principles of inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility (IDEA) into research cultures in science.
Dr. Oris Sanjur, a member of IWF Panama, is a molecular scientist and acting director at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. She oversees 420 employees with an annual budget of $35 million and manages research facilities throughout Panama and field sites in Africa, Asia and the Americas. Oris was also the Founding Deputy Director of the Office of Diversity at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C, where she established the Smithsonian wide diversity, equity, access and inclusion office.
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