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Gender Issues
Already during the proposal preparation, IP NANOKER partners have put particular emphasis on gender issues. Generally, in IP NANOKER, gender equality addresses two objectives:
- promoting the participation of women scientists
- ensuring that the gender dimension of women scientists is adequately addressed.
At the end of the first project year, a Gender Advisory Board consisting of 6 members (equal number of male and female members), one of them being elected as ombudsperson, has been constituted and a Gender Action Plan (GAP) has been developed to promote gender equality within IP NANOKER.
The GAP consists of two parts:
- analysis of the current gender situation in IP NANOKER
- recommendation of actions and activities.
For further information read the complete IP NANOKER Gender Action Plan |
Related Contents - A report of the European Parliament calls for better representation of women in science
The European Parliament Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality recently adopted a report on the representation of women in science. According to the report, women are greatly outnumbered by men in science and research jobs. Only 35% of the researchers working in the public domain and only 18% of the researchers working in the private domain are women. |
- Exposition on Women in Science at EPFL
Exhibition open, free and general public from March 25 to May 31, 2008 at the EPFL.
Women in Science highlights significant work in the fields of computer science, mathematics, life sciences, astronomy, chemistry and physics made by women.
The discoveries of these scientists are explained to the public by experiments, manipulations, descriptions and illustrations multiples. Moreover, the course of life of these women makes reading their biography as exciting as novels of adventure and thus, replace discoveries in their human context.
Thus, the exhibition is based on scientific evidence, historical and personal where everyone will appreciate these emblematic figures in the world of science.
On the sidelines of the exhibition Women of Science at the EPFL, 12 Nobel Prize women are in the spotlight in a gallery itinerant portrait. |
- Women in R&D. Research and Challenge (“Mujer en I+D. Investigación y Desafío)
26 June 2007. Oviedo (Spain)
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- IP NANOKER participation in a Spanish event on Women in R&D
The INCAR-CSIC, partner of IP NANOKER, is currently organizing a debate on “Women in R&D. Research and Challenge” (“Mujer en I+D. Investigación + Desafío”) to be celebrated on 26 June 2007 in Oviedo. This debate is one of many actions under the Spanish “Año de la Ciencia 2007” (Science Year 2007), a special measure by the Spanish Government with the general aim to promote dissemination activities focused on Spanish science and technology. |
- Interview with Ulrike Wolff (WomenInNano)
Dr.Ulrike Wolff
Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden
Partner Coordinator of WomenInNano
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- IP NANOKER Workshop "Gender in Research on Nanomaterials"
The objectives of the workshop on Gender in Research and Nanomaterials were to arise the awareness on gender related aspects regarding employment and career, the role of female scientists in “nano”, to present different career’ paths of scientists, and to develop strategies and discuss alternatives to the current situation. |
- Internal Training "Workshop on Nanotechnologies and Gender"
An IP NANOKER internal training workshop is foreseen for Dec. 2006. |
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