Published by Ministry of Higher Education and Science Bredgade 40 1260 Copenhagen K mail: ufm@ufm.dk Women comprised 56 per cent of new students enrolled on undergraduate degree programmes at universities in 2014. The female majority evens out at PhD level. For example, in 2013 the gender divide ofthose starting a Read more…
The Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC) is launching a call for candidates for a “gender” chair in one of USPC’s eight constituent institutions: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, Université Paris Descartes, Université Paris Diderot, Université Paris 13, École des hautes études en santé publique (EHESP), Institut national des langues Read more…
Description Taking on a critical sociological and feminist postcolonial theories perspective, this workshop wants to examine the politics and structures of exclusion and inclusion at stake in higher education. Our special interest lies in getting to know about ways social inequalities are articulated and intertwined within the institutional practices of Read more…
The quality of higher education and research is strongly connected to the quality of the people working in the academic sector. For excellent science, excellent scientists are needed. The pool of competent scholars with academic career ambitions has been growing for the past decades. As public funding of universities has Read more…
Report of the Expert Group “Innovation through Gender” Chairperson: Londa Schiebinger Rapporteur: Ineke Klinge “This publication presents the results of a group of more than sixty experts. With concrete case studies, the report shows that gender differences, in terms of needs, behaviours and attitudes, play an important role in research Read more…
In 2009, women in scientific research accounted for 33 % of researchers in the EU. Their proportion since 2002 is growing faster than that of men (5.1 % annually, compared with 3.3 % for men). Over the same period a similar pattern is followed by the proportion of women among Read more…
As in most Western countries, research and studies about women’s issues were first developed in France in the wake of the 1970s feminist movement. New international and European dynamics favoured the creation of Gender Studies: the Peking International Conference (1995) as well as pressure in Europe to include “gender” in Read more…