Baetz: Standing up for female scientists and researchers

At science meetings, women need to grab the mic – and not let go.
As the director of the Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology at uOttawa and as past-president of the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences, I get a lot of emails asking me to attend or help advertise science conferences.
Most of these emails end up in my delete file.
Why? I am no longer going to promote, sponsor or attend meetings that do not have a significant number of female speakers.
If accomplished female scientists