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GenderAction Launches Horizon Europe Policy Briefs Series

In June we launched GENDERACTION Policy Brief Series on Horizon Europe, to bring the key gender issues to the on-going negotiations. The intention is to release one GENDERACTION policy brief on Horizon Europe per week in the upcoming months. We are firmly convinced that gender equality policies and the gender dimension in research and innovation are crucial for the future Framework Programme and should be adequately reflected and integrated in the official documents as well as in further discussion, dissemination...

New Book: Gender and Neoliberalism in Czech Academia

We published an e-book Gender and Neoliberalism in Czech Academia, edited by Marta Vohlídalová and Marcela Linková. The 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, gender blind research policy adopted in the Czech Republic, academic career paths before 1989 and today, mobility, wellbeing and job satisfaction among academics and the reasons and motivations for leaving academic careers. The...

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....

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...

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...