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1 Gender Equality in the Chemical Weapons Regime [1] (2020)

handle is hein.unl/ungeqc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Gender Equality in the hemical Weapons Reg * Data from the US and the UK indicates that the proportion of women completing undergraduate degrees in chemistry is higher than in most of other STEM subjects, with nearly 50% of the bachelor's degrees in chemistry being awarded to women.2 * Out of the 186 laureates of Nobel Prize in Chemistry, only 7 are women. The chemical science community must confront systemic disadvantages and enable as many differ- ent kinds of people as possible to contribute to sci- entific discovery and innovation. - Royal Society of Chemistry, 20181 The gender gap widens as one moves up from the under- graduate to senior levels, showing a negative correlation between the proportion of women and seniority in this dis- cipline. Women's underrepresentation can reinforce existing biases in scientific research and thwart opportunities for discovery and innovation in the chemical sciences. IDEAS FOR ACTION Engage in initiatives that combat harmful gender stereo- types in sciences and promote gender equality in STEM, e.g. OPCW's Women in Chemistry Symposium, Ada Lovelace Day, Diversify Chemistry Ensure that women and men are equally represented in panel discussions, by planning participation early and byfo- cusing on speaker expertise. 1) Diversity landscape of the chemical sciences. Royal Society of Chemistry. https://www.rsc.org/globalas- sets/02-about-s/our-srategy/inclusion-diversity/cm-044-17_a4-diversity-landscape-of-the-chemical-sci- 2) American Physical Society, 2018,-ww.aps.org/programs/education/statistics/; Higher education student and staff records, HESA, https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis. Distribute relevant resources on gender ahead of CWC Conferences of States Parties, such as the Gender & Dis- armament Resource Pack developed by the International Gender Champions Disarmament Impact Group. 4 Track participation of men and women as speakers and make the data available. 3) Data from the OPCW Technical Secretariat obtained in November 2020. 4) See R. H. Dalaqua, K. Egeland and T. G. Hugo, Still Behind the Curve: Gender Balance in Arms Control, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Diplomacy, UNIDIR, 2019, https://unidir.org/publication/still-behind- curve