LSC’s Commitment to Diversity
As members of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, we recognize the importance of diversity to enrich our research and scholarship. We pledge to provide a welcoming, inclusive environment to talented individuals regardless of characteristics such as, but not limited to, physical ability, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, economic status, or personal religious practices, and to support the professional growth of all collaboration members.
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration recognizes the challenges faced by scientists who belong to underrepresented groups. We celebrate the contributions made to the LVC’s achievements by physicists, astronomers, engineers, detector operators, students, and staff who identify as women, transgender, non-gender-binary, intersex, and/or gender-diverse.
We also pledge to work to increase the numbers of women and under-represented minorities that actively participate in the LVC, to pursue recruitment, mentoring, retention and promotion of women and under-represented minority scientists and engineers, and to maximize their contribution to excellence in our research. As a collaboration, we will strive to create a professional climate that encourages inclusion and that respects and values diversity.