Supporting Data for: Women’s Contribution to Science and Technology through ICWES Conferences

This dataset was created by Monique Frize, Claire Deschênes and Ruby Heap from data collected on each International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES), from ICWES-I to ICWES-XII. The dataset was first archived with the University of Ottawa Archives and Special Collections and has since been transformed into a dataset for analyses and preservation (see ReadMe file for quality-assurance procedures performed on the data); files are largely unchanged to accurately represent the historical record and the researchers’ data collection methodologies.

A note left by the creators about its creation, content, and use, states:

To obtain quantitative information, Excel files were prepared for each ICWES-I to ICWES-XII conferences, listing information taken from the programs and proceedings (the number and titles of the papers, presentations, activities for each ICWES sessions, the number of sub-topics by session (if any), the number of women, men, and unknown sex of the speakers, the ICWES region of the speakers and the pages where abstracts or papers can be found in the proceedings). The ICWES regions refer to 11 current regions of the world that were defined by the International Network on Women Engineers and Scientists (INWES) which was born out of the ICWES conferences.