The International Science Council (ISC), the Interacademy Partnership (IAP), and the Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science (SCGES) have published a report, “Towards gender equality in scientific organizations: assessment and recommendations,” (DOI: 10.24948/2026.03) based on their collaborative project, “Advancing Gender Equality in Scientific Organizations.”
The report details an assessment of the status of leadership of women scientists in academies of science, medicine, and engineering, and in global disciplinary science unions. The findings in the report are based on surveys of national science academies and international scientific unions; a survey to gather information about the experiences of individual scientists; and interviews with a dozen prominent scientists. The report details the status of women in these organizations with respect to their participation, leadership, and recognition, and it outlines practices that have led to improvements.
IUPAC is a member of the ISC and is a founding member of SCGES, and IUPAC volunteers contributed to the project and to the report.
For information on the project and the report, see https://council.science/publications/towards-gender-equality-in-scientific-organizations/ . The report is available for download as doi.org/10.24948/2026.03
Related IUPAC project 2020-016-3-020 “The Gender Gap in Chemistry“.