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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...

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.

Angela Saini: Disappointed by Darwin

Are women more nurturing than men? Are men more promiscuous than women? Did Charles Darwin really believe that females are inferior? Why are humans and killer whales among the few mammals that undergo the menopause? Taking us on an eye-opening journey through science, Angela Saini’s Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story challenges our preconceptions about men and women. In her book, science journalist and engineer Saini challenges the...

Interview of the Month: NKC and Marcela Linkova

Every month the European Platform of Women Scientists (EPWS) presents the characteristics and activities of one Member Association. This month it is the National Contact Center for Gender and Science. EPWS: If you wanted to describe your association in one sentence, what would you say? NKC: Since 2001 we have been working to advance gender equality in Czech research and higher education and address challenges facing specifically women researchers. EPWS: What are its recent achievements?...

New book: Gender And Neoliberalism In Czech Academia

“Transforming knowledge into an engine of economy” is a motto that has driven the transformation of research in the last few decades. Competition stands at the centre of the current neoliberal-inspired reforms and has underpinned changes in research organization, career paths and working conditions in academia, and research funding practices. This book analyses the consequences of the neoliberal-informed reforms for gender equality in Czech academia. It examines gender aspects in the construction of research excellence,...

Kateřina Cidlinská on eument-net

A chair of Eument-net, an European network of mentoring programmes, Kateřina Cidlinská, gave an interview to European Platform of Women Scientists (EPWS). Read more about objectives, history and recent achievements of eument-net on the website of EPWS.

STEMM Equality Congress

The STEMM Equality Congress is a two day conference hosted annually focusing on equality, diversity and inclusion in the STEMM fields. Building on some of the key themes and issues presented during the 2017 Congress, 2018 will focus on: intersectionality; sharing success stories from around the world; practical measures that are working for other organisations; local challenges that organisations are facing and the tools they are using to address these challenges; and how these tools...

2018 International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Last year we focused on our favourite women researchers, university teachers and inventors, who inspire us. This year we want to commemorate women inventors and their inventions. During the campaign at this Facebook page we will present a handful of the many females whose ingenuity shaped the world, as we know it over the last couple of centuries. Mary Andreson, Tabitha Masters, Stephanie Kwolek, Grace Hopper and plenty of others. Women inventors played an important...

Editorial Newsletter 2/2017

Dear colleagues, In this issue we are bringing you an overview of some of the activities of the National Contact Centre for Gender in Science carried out in the second half of 2017. We are proud to announce that we launched three books in November and December 2017. We report about the first book House Revolt: How Women Did Dissent in our last newsletter 1/2017. Its launch took place on 17 November 2017, the hall...

Book Launch of House Revolt: How Women Did Dissent

On the day commemorating the change of the regime in Czechoslovakia, 17 November 2017, the book called Bytová revolta: Jak ženy dělaly disent (House Revolt: How Women Did Dissent) was launched in the Lucerna Gallery. Of the 21 women presented in book 19 were present at the launch. During her opening speech, Marcela Linkova of the Centre for Gender and Science, one of the co-editors and mastermind behind the book explained why the Centre team...