To take a page from Jonathan Eisen’s book….I started looking at some of the top meetings in my own field to gauge the representation of women on the invited speaker list…. Let’s start with some of the premier meetings in our field…. those where the biggest of the big present, attend and send their trainees…
I give you the invited speaker list for the 2013 Cold Spring Harbor Microbial Pathogenesis and Host Response Meeting… girls in red
Keynote Speaker
Jeffrey Gordon, Washington University
Invited Speakers
Theresa Koehler, University of Texas, Houston
Brendan Cormack, Johns Hopkins University
Raphael Valdivia, Duke University
Christopher Sassetti, University of Massachusetts
Russell Vance, University of California, Berkeley
Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg, University of Chicago
John Rawls, Duke University
Anthony Richardson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Craig Roy, Yale University
Don Sheppard, McGill University, Canada
Suzanne Noble, University of California, San Francisco
Gerry Wright, McMaster University, Canada
Jeffery Cox, University of California, San Francisco
Terry Roemer, Merck Frosst Center for Therapeutic Research, Canada
Lori Burrows, McMaster University, Canada
Pradeep Singh, University of Washington
That’s 4 girls (that I can tell), out of 17 total.
C’mon – we can surely do better than this.
