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The Gender pay gap in academia
As it exists in many other fields, the gender pay gap also affects women in academia. An association similar to our own, the Association of Professional Women in Medical Sciences, comprised of junior women and senior scientists worked for decades to help improve policies for women at the University of North Carolina in the USA.…
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Eine grosse Liebe zum Detail
Sereina Riniker wurde mit 29 Jahren die jüngste Professorin an der ETH Zürich und gehört weltweit zu den vielversprechendsten jungen Forscherinnen. Die gebürtige Aargauerin war schon am Gymnasium von den Naturwissenschaften fasziniert, besonders von der Informatik. Ein Programm Schritt für Schritt aufzubauen, hätte ihr viel Spass gemacht. Die Logik dahinter beeindruckte sie. So überlegte sie…
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Death by a Thousand Cuts
Women are being forced out of careers in science and engineering, not because they can’t juggle babies and Bunsen burners, but because they’re discouraged at every turn by thousands of small, sexist moments that make them feel unwelcome and unworthy. Reddit interim CEO Ellen Pao, who just lost a major sexdiscrimination lawsuit against her former…
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Retaining More Academic Women
Where are all the women in higher education? There is evidence supporting that women are underrepresented in academe today. How can colleges and universities open up the path to leadership for women in the future? In a special collection of articles published by the Chronicle of Higher Education (Washington D. C., 2015), you find a…
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How to be an effective sponsor and a good protégé
The Relationship You Need to Get Right throughout your career PDF “The Relationship You Need to Get Right” by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Melinda Marshall, and Laura Sherbin, in: Harvard Business Review, October 2011, p. 131 – 134.
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Best way to flourish excellence
Is a ticking clock the best way for scientists to flourish? The Medical Research Council in UK thought it over and removed the time-bound criteria. The Medical Research Council in UK reflected whether time is since PhD an adequate or fair measurement of a person’s creativity, experience or productivity. They concluded that it is not.…
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Capturing career paths of ERC grantees and applicants
A study about the career paths of applicants for and researchers awarded a grant of the European Research Council (ERC) shows different evaluation standards across Europe and that the major themes are dual careers. The European Research Council’s (ERC) peer review evaluation process has been carefully designed to identify scientific excellence irrespective of the gender,…
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7 Actionable Strategies
Seven Actionable Strategies for Advancing Women in STEM fields In the scientific journal affiliated to the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), a group of scientists line out seven strategies which would help to gain and retain women in science, engineering, and medicine. The implementation of these strategies would be a step to overcome…
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Is the Professor Bossy or Brilliant? Much Depends on Gender
People tend to think more highly of men than women in professional settings, praise men for the same things they criticize women for By using data from 14 million student reviews on the Rate My Professors site, a university history professors just wanted to visualize large texts. But his charts reveal how students are influenced…