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Gender and Science and Technology - Research Convenings
Where the international research community on women in science and technology meets - historical conference series and the contemporary venues continuing that work today.
Historical context
The Gender and Science and Technology (GASAT) conferences ran internationally beginning in the early 1980s and were among the first regular international venues bringing together researchers working on women's participation in STEM. The conferences contributed early empirical work, framework development, and the building of the international research community that subsequent institutions - UNESCO programs, OWSD, GenderInSITE - were built around.
Current venues continuing this work
- Gender Summit - the largest contemporary international convening on gender and science, running since 2011 with regional editions across multiple continents.
- European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education
- UNESCO World Conference on Higher Education - regular convening with substantial gender-in-STEM streams.
- AAUW Convention - major US venue for gender-in-education policy research.
- OWSD General Assembly - periodic international convening of women scientists from the developing world.
- Grace Hopper Celebration - largest annual convening of women technologists, with a substantial research and academic track.