Gender Equity in Academia: A First Aid Kit

Session

Placing Ourselves

14 Sept 2022, 08:50

2U01, Leopoldstr. 13 (Zoom and Lecture Hall 2U01, Leopoldstr. 13, Munich)

1. Beyond getting the record straight: the complex relation between gender and physics

Prof. Maria Rentetzi (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen -Nürnberg)

14/09/2022, 09:00

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...

2. Inclusivity in practice

Dr Brian Henning (EPFL)

14/09/2022, 11:00

As discussions around diversity, equity, and inclusivity are becoming increasingly more common (thankfully), it seems a good time to ask: What measures/concrete actions can we make as researchers to bring these principles to life? I will describe one such measure taken by my co-organizers and myself in organizing a recent workshop, where we held an inclusivity initiative that funded ~10 young...

3. Of course! Inspiring stories about becoming a scientist

Dr Audine Laurian (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Meteorologisches Institut, "Waves to Weather" (CRC 165))

14/09/2022, 11:45

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...

4. When you know better, do better: The evolution of gender equity in (science) academia

Dr Tana D. Joseph (AstroComms)

14/09/2022, 13:30

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...

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