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#SpeedUpChange campaign celebrates a great success

5 days of celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science is over. National authorities from more than 15 countries were addressed with calls for strengthening their efforts in the area of gender equality in research or for introducing new measures. Some national governmental bodies, ministries and research funding organisations joined the campaign to present their achievements. Teams of GENDERACTION and GEARING-Roles would like to thank all who participated and helped with sharing the...

New campaign celebrates Czech women in science

A new campaign by the Centre for Gender and Science celebrates women in science, but it also points out to the fact that Czech female scientists are not equally represented. The official hashtag of the campaign, launched on social media on 3rd of February, is #WomenInScience. The campaign called Female Scientists’ Successes in 2020 will run from Wednesday till February 11, which marks the International Day of Girls and Women in Science. Under the hashtag...

IDWGS 2021: Help us #SpeedUpChange

On 11 February we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science with the aim to increase the visibility of the importance of interventions of national/regional governments, state and/or local administration bodies in achieving gender equality in research and innovation. Join our GENDERACTION Twitter campaign and help us make a difference! Share your ideas between 8 and 12 February 2021 about what national authorities should do to support gender equality in research and innovation. Feel free...

Gina Rippon: I have always been fascinated by the brain

Neuroscientist and feminist, Prof. Gina Rippon, has recently become famous for her work on and critique of  the misuse of neuroscientific research and outdated gender stereotypes. Her scientific efforts culminated in her book The Gendered Brain: The New Neuroscience that Shatters the Myth of the Female Brain, which investigates the role of life experiences and biology in brain development. In the interview for the Center for Gender and Science, she spoke of stereotypes in neuroscience,...

Read our new newsletter issue

Dear colleagues, dear followers, The end of the year is a time to reflect on the events of the past months. As 2020 was probably one of the most challenging years for many of us, we want to welcome the New Year remembering the good that has happened. We are happy to report on advancements made by the Centre for Gender and Science on the domestic front in the Czech Republic. We also bring you...

Milada Paulová Award 2020 goes to Dr. Ilona Müllerová

The 2020 Milada Paulova Award was given to Ilona Müllerová, director of the Institute of Scientific Instruments CAS and a pioneer in the field of electron microscopy. Ilona Müllerová’s career has been focused on the field of electron microscopy, from the point of view of surface physics and design of an electron-optical system. Since 2012, she has been the director of the Institute of Scientific Instruments where she also leads the research team on surface microscopy...

Join neuroscientist G. Rippon at CGS’s lecture on sexism in brain research

In two weeks already, acclaimed neuroscientist Gina Rippon, the author of ‘The Gendred Brain‘ book,  will give an online lecture on the influence of gender stereotypes in neurosciences and research. Rippon will speak about the ’Hunt the Sex Differences’ agenda with the aim to demonstrate how the belief in differences among ‘male’ and ‘female’ brains can narrow and distort the research processes. She will tackle how gender biases influence the asked research questions, the selected methodology,...

MENTORING IN ACADEMIA AND RESEARCH: A TOOL TO IMPROVE GENDER EQUALITY IN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

International Online Expert Exchange Organizers: Centre for Gender and Science (Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) and eument-net (European Network of Mentoring Programmes for the Advancement of Equal Opportunities and Cultural and Institutional Change in Academia and Research) Date: 23.10.2020 Time: 9:30 a.m. till 1:30 p.m. Deadline for registration: 4.10.2020 Registration form: HERE   Conference objectives are to: • provide information about the eument-net, European Mentoring Network • create a knowledge base...

Mentoring in Academia and Research

DEADLINE IS EXTENDED UNTIL OCTOBER 4TH!  International Online Expert Exchange Organizers: Centre for Gender and Science (Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) and eument-net (European Network of Mentoring Programmes for the Advancement of Equal Opportunities and Cultural and Institutional Change in Academia and Research) Date: 23.10.2020 Time: 9:30 a.m. till 1:30 p.m. Deadline for registration: 4.10.2020 Registration form: HERE   Conference objectives are to: • provide information about the eument-net, European Mentoring...

Resistances to change: Change the resistances!

Join the workshop by Anita Thaler (IFZ, Austria) & Jennifer Dahmen-Adkins (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) organised by the Center for Gender and Science and planned for August 24. The workshop aims at reflecting personal experiences of resistance to organisational change during the implementation of gender equality plans (GEPs). Anita and Jennifer have rich experience with work towards gender equality in science and research and have implemented GEPs in research-performing organisations within the GenderTime project. They...