Gender and Science Blog

More than 40 experts on gender equality, diversity management and public policies assessment from universities, research centres and public institutions from several European countries participated in the Policy Learning Workshop held in Barcelona last 13 November 2018. The event was hosted by the Gender and ICT Research Group (IN3-Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) in the framework of the Horizon 2020 project EFFORTI (Evaluation Framework for Promoting Gender Equality in R&I)....

We want to commemorate this International Women's Day, 8th of March 2018, by considering the representation of women in science and technology system (STS). Despite the advancements in this sector and the contrinutions of women in it, only 40,1% of scientists and engineers are women in EU-28. To know more about women's situation in STS we recommend you these GenPORT resources.  

Dr. Vernos ( ICREA Research Professor and European Research Council Scientific Council) explains in this video what can European Research Centres do in order to achieve gender equality. She presents, as good practices, the outcomes of the LIBRA project (which it is in an early stage of implementation) and the ERC’s gender balance working group. She then uses her field of research, Biomedicine, in order to illustrate why it is crucial for excellence and quality to include a gender approach...

Rachel Herbert (Senior Market Intelligence Manager, Strategy at Elsevier) explains the main characteristics of the field of Gender Research according to analysis produced by Elsevier, one of the most popular information and analytics companies in the academic field. In this video Herbert exposes why Gender as a research field is growing relatively more than other disciplines, what are the countries leading this growth and its shape, networks and main topics.Her presentation is based...