Gender Equity in Academia: A First Aid Kit

Session

Power and gender

Sep 15, 2022, 9:00 AM

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

5. What social factors keep women away from studying mathematical physics?

Prof. Hiromi Yokoyama (Kavli IPMU)

9/15/22, 9:00 AM

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...

6. Gender, Power, Knowledge - mutually exclusive? Sociological insights

Prof. Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky (LMU Munich)

9/15/22, 11:00 AM

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...

7. Life of a young scientist: what helps and what hinders

Prof. Rohini M. Godbole (Indian Institute of Science)

9/15/22, 1:30 PM

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.