The Austrian Science Fund FWF is working to help more researchers, especially women, establish themselves in science. A look at the current status of gender equality shows that women are competing for research funding in increasing numbers, and they are doing so with as much success as men. Continue reading “A bigger role for women in science”
The social scientist Marita Haas explored the interdependence of female career paths and institutional norms by melding gender, profession and biography. Leaving behind traditional role models requires an encouraging environment and structural measures, concludes the expert. Continue reading “Equality: a question of openness”
Numerous reforms have brought fundamental change to working conditions in the science field. Equality objectives were implemented in very diverse ways, as investigations in the context of a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF have shown. Conclusion: there is still a long way to go to equality of opportunity. Continue reading “The stony road to equality”