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Closing the gender gap at academic conferences: A tool for monitoring and assessing academic events

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dc.contributor.author CORONA-SOBRINO, CARMEN es_ES
dc.contributor.author García-Melón, Mónica es_ES
dc.contributor.author Poveda Bautista, Rocio es_ES
dc.contributor.author Gonzalez-Urango, Hannia es_ES
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-05T12:37:08Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-05T12:37:08Z
dc.date.issued 2020-12-07 es_ES
dc.identifier.issn 1932-6203 es_ES
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10251/176123
dc.description.abstract [EN] The importance of participation in academic conferences is well known for members of the scientific community. It is not only for the feedback and the improvement of the work, it is also about career development, building networks and increasing visibility. Nevertheless, women continue to be under-represented in these academic events and even more so in the most visible positions such as speaking roles. This paper presents the development of a tool based on performance indicators, which will allow monitoring and evaluating gender roles and inequalities in academic conferences in order to tackle the underrepresentation of women. The study identifies relevant perspectives (participation, organizational structure and attitudes) and designs specific lists of performance indicators for each of them. The tool is based on a combination of two multicriteria techniques, Analytic Hierarchy Process and Analytic Hierarchy Process Sort, and a qualitative analysis based on in-depth interviews and information gathered from a focus group. The use of the AHP multi-criteria decision technique has allowed us to weight the indicators according to the opinion of several experts, and with them to be able to generate from these weightings composite indicators for each of the three dimensions. The most relevant indicators were for the participation dimension. Additionally, the tool developed has been applied to an academic conference which has been monitored in real time. The results are shown as a traffic light visualization approach, where red means bad performance, yellow average performance and green good performance, helping us to present the results for each indicator. Finally, proposals for improvement actions addressed to the red indicators are explained. The work carried out highlights the need to broaden the study of gender equality in academic conferences, not only regarding the participation but also the performance of different roles and functions. es_ES
dc.description.sponsorship Grant Number OR2019-60221 Funder: Open Society Foundations Programme: Open Society Initiative for Europe Award: Expanding the Female Talent Pipeline in Europe https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. es_ES
dc.language Inglés es_ES
dc.publisher Public Library of Science es_ES
dc.relation.ispartof PLoS ONE es_ES
dc.rights Reconocimiento (by) es_ES
dc.subject.classification PROYECTOS DE INGENIERIA es_ES
dc.title Closing the gender gap at academic conferences: A tool for monitoring and assessing academic events es_ES
dc.type Artículo es_ES
dc.identifier.doi 10.1371/journal.pone.0243549 es_ES
dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement///OR2019-60221//Monitoring and Assessment of Gender Gap in Events/ es_ES
dc.rights.accessRights Abierto es_ES
dc.contributor.affiliation Universitat Politècnica de València. Instituto de Gestión de la Innovación y del Conocimiento - Institut de Gestió de la Innovació i del Coneixement es_ES
dc.contributor.affiliation Universitat Politècnica de València. Departamento de Proyectos de Ingeniería - Departament de Projectes d'Enginyeria es_ES
dc.description.bibliographicCitation Corona-Sobrino, C.; García-Melón, M.; Poveda Bautista, R.; Gonzalez-Urango, H. (2020). Closing the gender gap at academic conferences: A tool for monitoring and assessing academic events. PLoS ONE. 15(12):1-23. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243549 es_ES
dc.description.accrualMethod S es_ES
dc.relation.publisherversion https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243549 es_ES
dc.description.upvformatpinicio 1 es_ES
dc.description.upvformatpfin 23 es_ES
dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion es_ES
dc.description.volume 15 es_ES
dc.description.issue 12 es_ES
dc.identifier.pmid 33284854 es_ES
dc.identifier.pmcid PMC7721142 es_ES
dc.relation.pasarela S\428907 es_ES
dc.contributor.funder FUNDACIO PROMOCIO INICIATIVA PER A SOCIETAT OBERTA A EUROPA es_ES
dc.subject.ods 05.- Alcanzar la igualdad entre los géneros y empoderar a todas las mujeres y niñas es_ES


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