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Brussels, 29-30th May 2017
Contribution to the 5th EWORA Conference
5th EWORA Conference “Pivoting on Gender Equality through the Lens of Leadership: Policies, Strategies and Actions ”
Roundtable: Empowering and Encouraging Women Academics: What works and what does not?
Fostering Sustainability through Strategic Partnerships
Supported by national and European research policy, efforts to enhance gender equality in science and research through the promotion of women in science and fostering structural change in research institutions have resulted in considerable progress. However, achievements are frequently lacking sustainability, and gender inequality in academia continues as an urgent problem (e.g., Istanbul Recommendations 2014: 2). The proposed paper will address this situation by putting forward two ingredients which we consider key in rendering existing efforts to gender equality and to equal opportunities in science and research more sustainable:
(1) the integration of the gender dimension in science and research, to provide the necessary cultural basis for the science system;
(2) the creation of a strategic partnership among national and European organisations and networks committed to the gender research, to improve the mandatory implementation of the gender dimension and reinforce the value of its potential for scientific impulses and consequent social changes.
>> Presentation
Roundtable III: Empowering and Encouraging Women Academics: What works and what does not?
Chair: Carmen Fenoll, Former Vice Rector, University of Castilla-La Mancha
Maren A. Jochimsen, Managing Director, Essen College of Gender Research, University of Duisburg-Essen & Brigitte Mühlenbruch, President, EPWS
Gita Revalde, Former Rector, Ventspils University College
Ramona Mihaila, Vice Rector, Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University
Ana M. González Ramos, Senior researcher, Open University of Catalonia & Beatriz Revelles Benavente, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Barcelona & Nora Räthzel, Senior Prof., University of Umea
Marja-Liisa Tenhunen, Former President, Centria University of Applied Sciences