This is held in the MOB Auditorium at 2:30pm with invited speaker Prof. Prajval Shastri

Degendering Physics Practice: Past Lessons and the Way Forward

Despite the multiple global and local initiatives towards mitigating the gender gap in the sciences during the recent decades, the evidence indicates that we are far from our goal. Part of the reason for slow progress is that, while there  is acknowledgement of the gender gap within the scientific enterprise,  there is far less acknowledgement of the cause of this gap being discrimination within. There is a need to deepen our understanding of the problem based on the evidence, and have this understanding shape the Interventions going forward. Policy prescriptions need  to be crafted at multiple levels, viz.,  classroom, departmental, institutional, organisational, and also for funding agencies and leadership. Further,   I will argue that an intersectionality lens in designing mitigating interventions is necessary in order to degender  our physics practice and make our enterprise a truly just and welcoming one for all.