4-8 July 2016
Kramer Law building
Africa/Johannesburg timezone
<a href="http://events.saip.org.za/internalPage.py?pageId=10&confId=86">The Proceedings of SAIP2016</a> published on 24 December 2017

PLENARY: Women and diversity in Physics

5 Jul 2016, 12:10
1h
Kramer Law building

Kramer Law building

UCT Middle Campus Cape Town
Oral Presentation Track H - Plenaries PLENARY

Speaker

Prof. Pauline Gagnon (CERN)

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Why is there so little diversity in physics? I will examine the situation at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics as well as use data from a large international study. While CERN is becoming a truly international laboratory where people of 102 nationalities conduct research, 80\% of its scientists are still white males. I examine why this is so by reviewing many contributing factors and suggest easily applicable measures that could greatly improve the situation. These measures would make the field more welcoming to all people and benefit all scientists, regardless of their gender, race, sexual orientation, physical ability or religion. Science can greatly benefit from more diversity since it translates into increased creativity potential, the key ingredient to scientific progress.

Primary author

Prof. Pauline Gagnon (CERN)

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