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5th National Conference: Science As a Vocation

On 30 October 2018, the Czech Academy of Sciences hosted the 5th national conference on gender and science, this time titled Science As a Vocation. The conference was organized by the Centre for Gender and Science of the Institute of Sociology of Czech Academy of Sciences. We were honoured that Angela Saini, acclaimed science journalist and author of the book Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong, accepted our invitation to deliver a keynote presentation. Marcela...

Lecture on Attitudes To Working Women

In her presentation organized as part of the Science and Technology Week, historian Dana Musilová examined the attitudes toward working women in the 19th and 20th centuries. Professor Musilová discussed the rise of specifically women’s professions, under what circumstances and with what results women were demanding entry into “male” professions, and equal access to the labour market. She also discussed the public opinion of professional activities of women at the time.

5th National Conference on Gender and Science

Research as a Profession in 2018 On 30 Oct 2018 the National Contact Centre for Gender and Science holds the 5th national conference on gender and science. British science journalist Angela Saini kindly accepted our invitation to be the key note speaker. Marcela Linková, Marta Vohlídalová and Kateřina Cidlinská of the Centre will present outcome of the research on work conditions in academic profession. Programme: 10.00 – 10.15 Welcome Speech Eva Zažímalová, President of the...

Marcela Linková for European Assoc. for Study of Science and Technology

The Centre for Gender & Science was established as a research department at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in the middle of 2016, after fifteen years of building its research, policy, and advocacy engagements at the EU and country levels. Its research profile focuses on 1) research careers from a gender perspective; 2) the impacts of neoliberal transformations in the public sector, especially in research, healthcare and social work; and...

The State of Women in Science in India – Not Intelligent Enough?

Saranya Manoharan Women make up only 14% of Indian researchers, compared to the global average of 28%. Gender parity in participation in higher education has been steadily increasing, with women constituting nearly 47.6% of the total enrolment. So what explains the abysmal gender representation among researchers? Breakup of university students by fields of study shows clear evidence of bias along gender lines. While women make up the majority of students in arts and medicine (the...

GenderAction: Main Results of Year Number 1

A year ago the GENDERACTION project was launched to establish a policy platform to support the implementation of gender equality in the European Research Area (ERA) at the level of member states and associated countries. The GENDERACTION consortium consists of 13 organisations from 12 countries and 5 Associate Partners from additional five countries. GENDERACTION closely cooperates with the ERAC Standing Working Group on Gender in Research and Innovation (SWG GRI). The main tools GENDERACTION employs...

2018 Mentoring Programme Launched

We are happy to report that 88 mentees (65 women, 23 men) enrolled in our mentoring programme in 2018. There are 77 doctoral students and 11 post-doctoral students, 61 from liberal and social science fields and 27 from engineering and natural sciences. The mentors come from Charles University in Prague, Masaryk University in Brno, and Palacký University in Olomouc.

Eument-net Workshop and General Assembly

Kateřina Cidlinská, chairwoman of eument-net (European network of mentoring programmes) invites you to a workshop for mentoring programme coordinators and eument-net General Assembly which will take place on 22 August in Dublin during the 10th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education. The workshop will focus on how to support peer mentoring in mentoring programmes. It will be lectured by the Mentoring and Training (MuT) member and is open for non-members. The workshop will...

5th National Conference on Gender and Science

On 30 October 2018 the Czech Academy of Sciences will host the 5th national conference on gender and science, this time titled Science As a Vocation. The conference is organized by the National Contact Centre for Gender and Science. We are honoured that acclaimed science journalist and writer Angela Saini accepted our invitation to be the keynote speaker. Her book Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong is being translated into Czech and should come out...

Survey: Academics of 2017

The Centre for Gender and Science and the Public Opinion Research Centre conducted a representative survey among academics working in the Czech Republic about their work conditions, wellbeing and job satisfaction. The survey was part of the project “Analysis of Barriers and Support Strategy for Equality in Science and Research”, funded by the EU Operational Programme Employment (OPE), which combines qualitative and quantitative research methods. Here we present the preliminary results of the representative survey....