Quick Post - Interview of me is up on the Story Exchange re: #WomenInSTEM especially at conferences

Thanks to the Story Exchange and Candice Helfand for featuring me and the issue of Women in Science on their blog.  Here is a link to the interview she did with me a few days ago that she just posted:  Welcoming Women at STEM Conferences - and Beyond | The Story Exchange.  The interview discusses not only some of the reasons to care about diversity in science and at science meetings, but also how I got interested in the topic in the first place.

For some other background on my work and posts in this area see this page with a compilation of my Posts on diversity (gender, etc) in science.

Some selected ones are below:

• Pete Seeger, RIP, on women in engineering - The Tree of Life
• Important new paper on impact of having women as conveners on gender ratio of speakers
• Diversity (of speakers, participants) at meetings: do something about it
• Storified tweets from the #UCDavisADVANCE Symposium on Increasing Diversity of STEM Faculty
• Perhaps this meeting should be renamed "Of Microbiomes and Men" ....
• Another genomics meeting featuring men men men and men: International Forum on "Genomics, Innovation and economic growth"
• Important read for those interested in gender, family & academia: Do Babies Matter
• Q-Bio conference in Hawaii, bring your surfboard & your Y chromosome b/c they don't take a XX
• YAMMGM - yet another mostly male genomics meeting (series): Plant Genomic Congresses by Global Engage
• ICG Europe starts w/ "Omics & the future of man" & sticks to men the rest of the time