STEM Women: How Men Can Help, with Professor Jonathan Eisen

STEM Women hosted a Google+ Hangout On Air with Jonathan Eisen on how men can help with the issues of gender inequality in STEM fields. Jonathan is a Professor at UC Davis and also the Academic Editor-in-Chief for PLOS Biology (http://www.plosbiology.org/). He is a passionate advocate of gender equality in STEM (see his blog http://phylogenomics.blogspot.ie/p/po.... Jonathan spoke with us about his work with the NSF UC Davis Advance Program which seeks to address academic recruitment, retention and promotion of women (http://www.portal.advance.vt.edu/). He also gave a number of practical tips on what we can do to encourage women in STEM. This is an important issue that affects both men and women. Read a text summary of this discussion on our website: http://www.stemwomen.net/jonathan-eisen/ This HOA series is hosted by Dr Buddhini Samarasinghe and Dr Zuleyka Zevallos. For further information & materials referred to during this discussion: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cv... Follow us on Twitter @stemwomen and on Google+: https://plus.google.com/+StemwomenNet1