In 1977 Evelyn Fox Keller, a prominent scholar and one of those feminists who introduced the gender perspective in our histories of science, described her situation as a graduate student in one of the ivy league US universities as “an anomaly of a woman in physics.” The story of her graduate school experience was not only a difficult one but an indicative of the significant discriminations...
I will present a project aiming at inspiring school children and students, and in particular women to study and have an academic career in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) disciplines. The comic books "Of course!" and "Of course!2" feature fifteen interviews of female and male role models working in meteorology, mathematics, marine biology, climate physics and...
From erasure and exclusion to intersectionality and justice, the fight to further gender equity in academia is not a new one. And as with all social justice work, it has undergone major changes over time. In this lecture I will discuss the ways in which the framework of gender equity in academia has evolved alongside our understandings of gender and indeed equity. I will also touch on what...
Japan has the lowest rate of STEM women in the OECD. It also has a low gender gap index and does not have a high awareness of equality among women along with men. This was imagined to be related to the tendency of female norms in Japanese society to demand submissive women.
The STEM female rate has been studied in social psychology, sociology of education, and sociology of science and...
The paper will present the state of the art in the vast amount of research on the mutual entanglement of gender, power, and knowledge in academia. Far from being an easy or overly evident constellation, the many ways in which science is gendered are as complex as they are empirically relevant.
The paper will also address how evidence-based policy advise - in search for more equality - has...
I would like to discuss what helps and hinders a young scientist in her early life. I would base my comments on experiences from my own life in science, from autobiographical stories of contributors to 'Lilavati's Daughters: Women Scientists of India' and also on my interactions with various colleagues in my life in science of about four and half decades.
The seminar deals with the problem of sexual harassment in the workplace, legal protection for those affected and the duties of the supervisor and makes you familiar with concrete options for action.
Where does sexual harassment start? What are the consequences of sexual harassment? What options of actions do I have, both as a person affected and as a bystander?
The so-called 4th industrial revolution is on track to perpetuate gender differences and inequalities. Bello and Blowers are co-authors of the gender chapter of the UNESCO Science report 'To be smart, the digital revolution will need to be inclusive'. Here they present some data and case studies from that report, looking at the latest opportunities and trends for women in the most 'masculine'...
