Indian Women in Science Wiki-Edit-a-thon In India, Science as a discipline is subject to many of the same gender issues as it is worldwide - women scientists are fewer in number than men, they occupy fewer positions of power, and face distinct issues by virtue of their gender and the accompanying societal pressures. Women Scientists in India also tend to be less visible than their male counterparts, and public awareness of Indian Women Scientists is low.
IndiaBioScience will be organising a series of public events to raise the profile of women scientists on one of the most-popular online encyclopaedias - Wikipedia. At these events, participants will be encouraged to create and complete profiles of Indian Women in Science. We will conduct the first three edit-a-thons on 11th, 13th and 14th October. The last of these events, on 14th October, will coincide with Ada Lovelace Day, an international day to celebrate the achievements of women in Science, Technology and Math. For more details and to participate click here (http://www.indiabioscience.org/content/women-science-wiki-edit-thon). Contact the IndiaBioScience Team for more details: www.indiabioscience.org & t...@indiabioscience.org Nandini Rajamani Robin, PhD Co-Director, IndiaBioScience National Centre for Biological Sciences Campus GKVK, Bellary Road Bangalore 560065, India email: nandin...@instem.res.in website: www.indiabioscience.org telephone: +91 80 23666223, +91 9449002296 personal: www.glidingsquirrel.in -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
