France: Charter for gender fairness at conferences

V. Pierron-Bohnes (1, 2) , N. Westbrook (3, 2) , Caroline Champenois (4, 2) , Claudine Lacroix (5, 2) , Pascale Launois (6, 2) , Marie-Aude Measson (7, 2) , Michel Spiro (2) , Amina Taleb (8, 2)

1 IPCMS - Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg
2 SFP - Société française de physique
3 Laboratoire Charles Fabry / Biophotonique
4 PIIM - Physique des interactions ioniques et moléculaires
5 NEEL - TMC - Théorie de la Matière Condensée
6 LPS - Laboratoire de Physique des Solides
7 NEEL - MagSup - Magnétisme et Supraconductivité
8 SSOLEIL - Synchrotron SOLEIL

Several French research entities, committees, and professional associations have jointly agreed to ask conference organizers to sign a “gender fairness” charter (charte de parité) when they apply for help from any of the participating organizations. These organizations are the Women and Physics Committee of SFP (the French Physical Society), CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research, a large research entity in France), F&S (Women and Science Association), and SFO (the French Optical Society). This condition would apply to requests for funding, official endorsement, or help with publicity. We recommend that the women physicists’ committees in all national physics societies institute similar initiatives so that all physics conferences will soon become “gender fair.”

Domaines: Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences; Physique et Société [physics.soc-ph]; Etudes sur le genre

V. Pierron-Bohnes, N. Westbrook, Caroline Champenois, Claudine Lacroix, Pascale Launois, et al.. France: Charter for gender fairness at conferences. AIP Conference Proceedings, 2019, 2109 (1), pp.050016. ⟨10.1063/1.5110090⟩. ⟨hal-02404631⟩