OPN Column March 2020
A Path to Equity in Asia-Pacific, by Judith Dawes, Cushia McGoverin, Frédérique Vanholsbeeck, Keith Gordon, Kae Nemoto, and Dawn Tan.
In November 2019, a diversity and equity panel at the Asia-Pacific Optical Sensors (APOS) Conference in Auckland, New Zealand, afforded a unique opportunity to share resources and initiatives to promote equity, diversity and inclusion with people from across the Asia-Pacific region. In that region, the situation considering gender equity in particular is somewhat harsher than in Europe or the United States. The full column can be downloaded below.
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Authors: OSA Fellow Judith Dawes is with MQ Photonics Research Centre, Macquarie University, Australia. OSA members Cushla McGoverin () and Frédérique Vanholsbeeck are with the Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies (DWC) and the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Keith Gordon is with DWC and the University of Otago, New Zealand. OSA member Weitao Liu is with Fudan University, China. Kae Nemoto is with the National Institute of Informatics, Japan. OSA member Dawn Tan is with the Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore. c. mc go ve ri n@ au ck la nd .a c. nz