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Tag: Gender equality

Young female engineer testing vehicles.

Projects

8 March 2021

No foreseeable changes in career choices

Despite numerous measures in support of gender equality, Austria’s world of work is still acutely characterised by typical female and male occupations. This labour market inequality has an impact on society as a whole. The sociologist Nina-Sophie Fritsch is examining underlying causes and comparing the current data in Austria to the situation at European level. Continue reading “No foreseeable changes in career choices”

Interview & Opinion

18 December 2019

“The excellent women researchers are right here”

Interview: Ingrid Ladner

By redesigning its career development programmes, the Austrian Science Fund FWF intends to initiate trailblazing changes to promote equal opportunities and innovation. This would provide a huge modernization thrust to the academic system as a whole, as Edith Gößnitzer notes in this interview. Gößnitzer, a chemist and expert on gender equality, is convinced that the […] Continue reading ““The excellent women researchers are right here””

Portrait

28 October 2019

Strategy and focus

By Margit Schwarz-Stiglbauer

Electrical engineer Ioanna Giouroudi has developed a portable sensor in mobile phone format that can be used to examine rivers, wells or swimming pools for pathogens. She recently moved her professional focus from active research to administration: since October Giouroudi has been coordinating doctoral training at TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology). Continue reading “Strategy and focus”

Interview & Opinion

3 June 2019

A bigger role for women in science

Barbara Zimmermann

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”

Projects

5 November 2018

Equality: a question of openness

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”

Projects

4 September 2017

The stony road to equality

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”

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