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The institutionalisation of equality policy in science, both at the national and the European scale, should facilitate progress towards equality in a space that wants to consider itself merit (and ability) driven. But discriminatory practices, both conscious and unconscious, direct or indirect, leave women out of many of the positions that they should occupy according to their accomplishments and capabilities. Many scientific institutions and their professionals still do not understand that if gender equality is only formally achieved and actual compliance is not monitored, they will lose part of the talent they are trying to cultivate.
Policy towards Gender Equity in Science and Research.
The report forms part of the overall effort to produce a meta-analysis of gender and science research across Europe (FP7 RTD–PP–L4–2007–1). Its objective is to analyse national, regional and local policies, measures and programmes towards gender equality in science and research covering the period from 1980 to 2008. The available literature classified under “Policies towards gender quality in research” (1,296 entries) in the Gender and Science Database (GSD) was revised and grouped according to three main thematic priorities: (1) measures towards advancing women’s science careers; (2) science management and reform, and (3) gender dimension in research and higher education. In general terms, an unequal distribution of the research literature was observed. There is a relative abundance of positional statements, conceptual clarifications, and ecommendations dealing with gender issues in science and research across most participating countries. Equally, there is a relatively large body documenting the vertical and horizontal segregation of women in relation to men in science and research. However, there are comparatively fewer systematic evaluations of policy measures. Geographically, most evaluation and accompanying research of implemented measures is found in the three continental countries Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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In 2010, in the EU-27, women account for 46% of those who achieve the title of doctor of research, but only 32% of scientists and engineers were women, and women represented only 44% of grade C academic staff, 37% of grade B academic staff, and 20% of grade A academic staff . In the past two decades, various initiatives have been developed to promote greater gender equality in research. However, the results have been extremely limited and have not overcome discriminatory structural and cultural barriers. Inequalities are produced and maintained in many different, often invisible, aspects of organisations, consolidating an inequality regime in the scientific and academic workplace. With the aim of challenging inequalities within organisations, the DirectorateGeneral for Research and Innovation of the European Commission has established a specific funding line in the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Development (FP7), which supports projects promoting structural changes in scientific organisations in order to foster gender equality. These Guidelines, which are the result of the activity of one of the first projects to be funded under this line, present a set of tools to enforce efficient gender management to implement structural and institutional changes in research organisations, based on the experiences of the Genis Lab project.
What matters to women in science? Gender, power and bureaucracy
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This text is about women and science although it does not specifically or directly examine the position and experience of practising scientists who carry out experiments, publish and are otherwise engaged in academic traffic. Building on John Law's modes of mattering (2004), the authors explore the enactments of 'women and science' in various locations where gender and feminist approaches, science policies and support activities for women in science meet in the European context. By exploring some of these 'trading zones' (Galison, 1999), the authors offer some suggestions on power and marginalization in the flagship of European research, the European Research Area. By introducing the notion of a mode of 'retrenchment', they argue that while gender equality has been co-opted into European science policy, an enactment with a feminist potential that emerged at the beginning of the new millennium has been gradually displaced by one building on an economic perspective of utility, resources and waste. Keywords gender, science policy, modes of mattering, trading zones, women and science This article is about women and science although it does not specifically or directly examine the position and experience of practising scientists who carry out experiments, publish and are otherwise engaged in academic traffic. What we are interested in is the enactment of the object 'women and science' in various locations where gender and feminist approaches, science policies and support activities for women in science have recently come to meet in the European context. By exploring some of these 'trading zones' (Galison, 1999), we hope to make some suggestions about power and marginalization in Article