Encouraging the participation of a diverse workforce in academia increases plurality as it broadens the range of skills, ways of thinking and experiences. Institutions and professional societies have been putting efforts on building plans that help make workplaces, conferences, education and extension programs more relatable to a highly diverse population. Argentina has an overall gender-balanced workforce in the sciences (~53% women/total), with an even higher representation in disciplines related to plant sciences. However, media outlets and national conferences related to genetics, botany, plant physiology, ecology and molecular biology, fail to reflect those numbers as the proportion of women invited for interviews, plenary lectures, and symposia falls below ~30%. As a way to increase the visibility of the wealth of plant science topics and experimental approaches in which Argentinian women work, and to facilitate connections among them across the country and abroad, we created the Argentinian Women in Plant Science network (https://argplantwomen.weebly.com/). This group has grown to over 200 members, representing a wide range of career stages and research topics. Since April, and taking advantage of the confinement situation, our weekly webinar series highlighting women plant scientists has reached an average audience of 60-70 participants, with a record of 100. Recently, we have begun a series of open professional development webinars to reach a wider public. Our first webinar, focused on Scientific poster design, had ~250 participants, most of them undergrad and graduate students from all over the country covering a diverse range of disciplines, including the social sciences. Even though we have immersed ourselves in the plant science community with our weekly seminars, we have expanded our goals with activities aimed to reach out to a much wider audience with webinars and teacher training workshops, hopefully making plant science more attainable to all.

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在阿根廷建立植物科学多样性的途径：通过虚拟活动突出女科学家的工作

鼓励多样化的劳动力参与学术界，因为它扩大了技能，思维方式和经验的范围，从而增加了多元化。机构和专业协会一直在努力制定计划，以帮助使工作场所，会议，教育和推广计划与高度多样化的人群更加相关。阿根廷在科学领域拥有一支性别均衡的总体劳动力（约占女性的53％），在植物科学相关学科中的代表比例更高。但是，与遗传学，植物学，植物生理学，生态学和分子生物学有关的媒体和全国性会议未能反映出这些数字，因为受邀参加面试，全体演讲和座谈会的妇女比例降至约30％以下。为了提高人们对阿根廷妇女从事的植物科学主题和实验方法的知名度，并促进他们在国内外的联系，我们建立了阿根廷妇女参与植物科学网络（https：// argplantwomen .weebly.com /）。该小组已发展到200多名成员，代表了广泛的职业阶段和研究主题。自4月以来，利用分娩情况，我们每周一次的网络研讨会系列重点介绍女性植物科学家，平均参加人数达到60-70人，创纪录的100人。最近，我们开始了一系列开放的专业发展网络研讨会，更广泛的公众 我们的第一个网络研讨会以“科学”海报设计为重点，有约250名参与者，他们大多数来自全国各地的本科生和研究生，涉及社会科学等多种学科。尽管我们通过每周的研讨会将自己融入植物科学界，但我们通过网络研讨会和教师培训研讨会扩大了目标，开展了旨在扩大受众的活动，希望使所有人都能更容易获得植物科学。