Lessons from an initiative to address gender bias

Elife. 2021 Dec 15:10:e75818. doi: 10.7554/eLife.75818.

Kate E Hoy¹, Bernadette M Fitzgibbon^#^{1

2}, Anna-Katharine Brem^#^{3

4

5}

¹ Epworth Centre for Innovation in Mental Health, Epworth Healthcare and Monash University Department of Psychiatry, Camberwell, Australia.
² Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
³ University Hospital of Old Age Psychiatry, Bern, Switzerland.
⁴ Department of Neuropsychology, Lucerne Psychiatry, Lucerne, Switzerland.
⁵ Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Division of Interventional Cognitive Neurology and Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

How a letter addressing the lack of women invited to speak at a conference in brain stimulation encouraged researchers to take action.

Keywords: brain stimulation; conferences; equity, diversity; gender bias; inclusion; none; point of view; research culture.