R-Ladies Global

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R-Ladies Global is a worldwide organization whose mission is to promote gender diversity in the R programming language community. [1] [2] [3]

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R-Ladies Global
Formation2016
Type organization
Fields computing, R, Women in STEM
Website rladies.org

History

On October 1st, 2012, Gabriela de Queiroz, a data scientist, founded R-Ladies in San Francisco (United States) after participating in similar free initiatives through Meetup. [1] [4] In the following four years, three other groups started: Taipei in 2014, [5]   Minneapolis (called “Twin Cities”) in 2015, [6] and London in 2016. [1] [7] The chapters were independent until the 2016 useR! Conference, where it was agreed to create a central coordinating organization. In that year, Gabriela de Queiroz and Erin LeDell of R-Ladies San Francisco; Chiin-Rui Tan, Alice Daish, Hannah Frick, Rachel Kirkham and Claudia Vitolo of R-Ladies London; as well as Heather Turner joined to apply for a grant from the R Consortium, with which they asked for support for the global expansion of the organization. [8] [9]

In September 2016, with this scholarship, R-Ladies Global was founded and in 2018 it was declared as a high-level project by the R Consortium. [10] As of 2019, the RLadies Global community consists of 178 groups in 48 countries. [11]

Organization

R-Ladies meetings are organized around workshops and talks, led by people that identify as female or as gender minorities (including but not limited to cis/trans women, trans men, non-binary, genderqueer, agender). [8] [12] The organization is coordinated, but decentralized, and new chapters can be founded by anyone using the publicly available “starter-kit”. [13]

R-Ladies groups aim to promote a culture of inclusion within their events and community. [14] [15] In addition, they promote gender equality and diversify in conferences, [16] [17] in the workplace, [18] [19] [20] collaboration among gender minorities, [21] and analysis of data about women. [12] [22]

R-Ladies also collaborates with other projects, such as NASA Datanauts. [23] [24] [25]

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