IUCr Gender Equity and Diversity Committee

The IUCr is proud to announce the formation of a Gender Equity and Diversity Committee (GEDC). The GEDC aims to address issues and establish new practices and policies to overcome inequity in the IUCr's processes. The Committee's terms of reference can be found here.

The current members of the GEDC are as follows:

• Jenny Martin (IUCr Executive Committee member, Australia)
• Sven Lidin (IUCr President, Sweden)
• Annalisa Guerri (member of the IUCr Calendar Committee that awards funding for crystallography conferences, Italy)
• Michele Zema (IUCr Executive Outreach Officer)
• Helen Maynard-Casely (ANSTO instrument scientist, Australia)
• Claire Murray (Beamline Support Scientist, Diamond Synchrotron, UK)
• Christine Beavers (Principal Beamline Scientist, Diamond Synchrotron, UK)

(Helen, Claire and Christine are three of the four authors of the IUCr blog "Women in Crystallography – we’re not just historical").

The Chair is asking for volunteers to complete the Committee. Jenny's message is:

The GEDC can have up to 10 members, and we currently have seven. So the next step is to find up to three more members of our community who are committed to addressing gender equity and diversity. To do that we need to address our own committee imbalance in geography and gender.

If you are interested in volunteering to join the GEDC, or would like to nominate someone that you think would do a good job, please contact Jenny or IUCr Executive Secretary Alex Ashcroft.