I’m happy to report that efforts to support women in paleontology are taking place in organizations beyond the myFOSSIL forums, and I thought I would share this article written by @taorminalepore, highlighting the actions taken to support women in paleontology at the 2016 annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate paleontology.
The article was posted in the PLOS paleo community, a blog hosted by the online, peer reviewed journal, PLOS one: http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2016/11/17/women-in-science-at-the-society-of-vertebrate-paleontology/
I’m excited to see how initiatives concerning women in paleontology continue to evolve over the upcoming year, especially those highlighted at professional conferences! What steps might professional societies take to include/expand these efforts?