CCL: ICQC shame

 Sent to CCL by: Ignacio Nebot-Gil [Ignacio.Nebot . uv.es]
 I fully support the boycott initiative, and we don't talk about sex but about
 gender and equality in theoretical chemistry meetings
 Ignacio Nebot-Gil
 Institute for Molecular Sciences
 University of Valencia, Spain
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 > El 16/02/2014, a las 02:12 a.m., "zborowsk
 zborowsk-*-chemia.uj.edu.pl" <owner-chemistry{}ccl.net>
 escribiÃ:
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 > Sent to CCL by: zborowsk [zborowsk]![chemia.uj.edu.pl]
 > Well,
 > could we talk about theoretical chemistry, not about sex....??
 > Please
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 > W dniu 2014-02-16 01:10, Salter-Duke, Brian James
 brian.james.duke|a|gmail.com napisaÅ(a):
 >> Sent to CCL by: "Salter-Duke, Brian James "
 >> [brian.james.duke---gmail.com]
 >> I fully agree that this is not acceptable. I trust that the three
 poeple
 >> sponsoring this, particularly Prof. Emily Carter, who is a member of
 the
 >> Academy, have made their views known to the Academy directly. Major
 >> international conferences should make sure there is a reasonable
 balance
 >> between men and women as well as from all countries in the world when
 >> selecting speakers.
 >>
 >> Brian Duke
 >>
 >> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 02:57:48PM -0800, Kadir Diri
 >> dirikadir[a]gmail.com wrote:
 >>>
 >>> Sent to CCL by: Kadir Diri [dirikadir ~ gmail.com]
 >>> Dear Colleagues,
 >>>
 >>> I am posting this message on behalf of professor Anna Krylov -one
 of
 >>> the many outstanding women in theoretical chemistry- regarding the
 >>> choice of speakers for the upcoming ICQC conference.
 >>>
 >>> I would always like to think of us, scientists, as some of the
 >>> leading figures in the fight for gender equality. I wish the choice
 >>> of speakers for this conference was just a statistical abnormality.
 >>> Even that would be unacceptable...
 >>>
 >>> Professor Krylov's message follows below.
 >>>
 >>> Best regards,
 >>> Kadir
 >>> ---
 >>>
 >>>
 >>> Dear Colleague:
 >>>
 >>> It happened again ---  another major theoretical chemistry
 >>> conference features an all-male program. One of us began boycotting
 >>> such conferences 14 years ago and can't believe that 14 years later
 >>> we are still seeing such overt discrimination. This time it is the
 >>> 15th International Congress of Quantum Chemistry (ICQC,
 >>> http://www.icqc2015.org) conducted under the auspices of
 >>> International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science
 >>> (http://www.iaqms.org), which will be held in Beijing, China.
 As of
 >>> 02/15/2014, the program features 24 invited speakers and 5 chairs
 >>> and honorary chairs and does not include a single woman.
 >>>
 >>> Are there no women in theoretical chemistry? Hardly. The Women in
 >>> Theoretical Chemistry web-directory (http://iopenshell.usc.edu/wtc)
 >>> lists more than 300 female scientists holding tenured and tenure
 >>> track academic positions or equivalent positions in industry and
 >>> other research establishments pursuing research in theoretical and
 >>> computational chemistry, biochemistry, material science, as well as
 >>> theoretical molecular/atomic physics and biophysics. Many of these
 >>> women are far more distinguished than many of the men being invited
 >>> to speak at these conferences.
 >>>
 >>> Feeling as fed up and frustrated as we do? Add your voice to ours
 by
 >>> signing this open letter (http://chn.ge/NQGKUc) denouncing this
 >>> biased practice, which we had hoped would be obsolete long ago (it
 >>> will take less than a minute).
 >>>
 >>> Thank you for your for your support.
 >>>
 >>> Prof. Emily Carter, Princeton University
 >>> Prof. Laura Gagliardi, University of Minnesota
 >>> Prof. Anna Krylov, University of Southern CaliforniaConferences:
 >>> http://server.ccl.net/chemistry/announcements/conferences/>;
 >>
 >> --
 >>   Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke)   Brian.Salter-Duke/a\monash.edu
 >>                    Adjunct Associate Professor
 >>            Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences
 >>      Monash University Parkville Campus, VIC 3052, Australia--
 > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKmW1cLzo8Q
 >
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