The Elsevier Foundation has announced that it has awarded the 2010 New Scholars grant to the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSDW) for two programmes - the National Assessments and Benchmarking of Gender, Science, Technology and Innovation and the OWSDW Awards for Young Women Scientists 2011. The $177,000 grant was announced at the OWSDW 4th General Assembly and International Conference, Women Scientists in a Changing World, hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing.
The OWSDW National Assessments and Benchmarking of Gender, Science, Technology and Innovation will undertake a seven country assessment in collaboration with WIGSAT (Women, Technology, Society) to provide a picture of the level of support, opportunities and participation of women in innovation systems in developed, emerging and developing countries. A series of policy recommendations will then be developed on the basis of the data analysis and future assessments, for defining and achieving national targets for women's participation in countries with highly accelerated growth in the research arena. The study will cover China, India, Brazil, Indonesia, South Africa the US and Europe.
A 2009 Elsevier Foundation New Scholars grant enabled the OWSDW Awards for Young Women Scientists to expand the existing award programme from four prizes (one per developing world region) to twelve (three discipline-specific grants per region). The 2010 prizes were announced on June 27, 2010, at the OWSDW 4th General Assembly meeting in Beijing. The 2010 Elsevier Foundation New Scholars grant will also ensure that the OWSDW Awards for Young Women Scientists will be continued in 2011, ensuring that talented young women scientists from the developing world continue to be recognised for their achievements.
Targeting the attrition of talented women scientists in the academic pipeline, past Elsevier Foundation New Scholars projects have aimed to support women scholars during the early stages of their demanding careers in science and technology. They have ranged from mentoring to advocacy, basic research to dual career travel and recruiting grants, lactation centers, childcare at professional meetings and work-life balance workshops.
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