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Gender and equality
Until a few weeks ago I had been unaware that Stockholm University has a council for gender and equality issues. Now I know that it exists and that it forms an important part of Stockholm University. It acts as an … Continue reading
Raise your consciousness!
Our Department celebrated its 50 year anniversary yesterday with good food, very nice lectures and the unveiling of a portrait gallery showing all the former professors, who had once populated the place since the late 1800s. Beside these seriously looking … Continue reading
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Tagged Department of Geological Sciences, female minority, gender equality, Geological Sciences, geology, male dominance, media, natural science, science, science career, Stockholm University, Students, Sweden, university, women scientists
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And the winner is ….
In May this year I was really taken back by the low number of women on the list of EGU medal, both for 2013 and also when looking back a couple of years. So I sent an open letter to … Continue reading
Why women leave academia and why universities should be worried
Facebook is not only a good forum to keep in contact with friends and family, or to post more or less strange pictures and videos, but also a source of information that would otherwise be easily overlooked. One of my … Continue reading
Nomination deadline is tomorrow
Deadline for the EGU medal nominations is tomorrow – June 15. I sincerely hope that many of you have sent in their nominations – I have sent my two nominations for two successful, bright and gorgeous female scientists a few … Continue reading
Gender issues at universities revisited
The online newsletter Curie, which is issued by the Swedish Research Council recently highlighted research by Mikael Hjerm and Rickard Danell of Umeå University. The two scientists found that female researchers are discriminated even at Swedish Universities. Their results, published … Continue reading
Changes are possible – it just needs an effort
It is almost two weeks since I wrote my blog about the gender bias among EGU’s awards and medals. The reactions to my post were many. Some of these led to interesting discussions, some provided tips on further reading, and … Continue reading
Nominate women for next year’s EGU medals
Thank you all for the loads of positive feedback! So many colleagues have approached me during the past two days and told me that it was about time that someone makes this obvious issue obvious! Now I am just looking … Continue reading
Gender issue hits high
What a response I got to yesterday’s blog! Views are scoring an unbelievable high (almost reaching 2000). This has never happened before, although I have definitely written about other very interesting topics before! Hördis alerted me to an interesting article … Continue reading
Open letter to the President and to the Vice-President of the European Geosciences Union
Vienna, April 9, 2013 Dear colleagues, It has been a few years since I last attended the EGU General Assembly, which has always been an excellent forum for me to catch up on latest research results, to learn more about … Continue reading
Amazing feedback
My colleague Agatha de Boer, who had organized the meeting of the Earth Science Women’s Network yesterday, sent us late last night an evaluation of yesterday’s meeting and of what the participants had thought about our talks. Agatha writes: The … Continue reading
38 years in 22 slides
Here I am back again in freezing cold Vienna attending this year’s EGU conference. Last time I was here was 2007 and much has changed since then. There is for example an EGU app with continuous program updates, registration is … Continue reading
Women in science – no change ever?
In my role as member of an advisory committee for a large research network, I attended a board meeting a few weeks ago. As so often before, I was the only woman present during this two-day meeting, where around 15 … Continue reading
Where is the bright future for young scientists?
It is a hard struggle to move from a temporary to a permanent university position. Firstly, such positions need to be available, secondly one has to apply for them, thirdly one needs enough merits to be selected and called for … Continue reading
Professor Vivi
During the week-ends leading up to Christmas, all sorts of Christmas markets pop up all around town; the art schools have their X-mas markets, different welfare organizations and societies have their markets, Skansen has its famous X-market, and the Old … Continue reading
Autumn has arrived in Stockholm
The sun is shining, but the air feels cold and crispy, and the leaves are turning red and yellow. Time to dig out a warm coat, gloves, a cap and winter boots; time to stock up on vitamin D to … Continue reading
Women in natural science – chapter 3
The more I enquire about the why-so-few-women-in-higher-positions-in-our-universities-issue with male and female colleagues in Sweden, the clearer the picture seems to become. Of course it is a tough struggle for many women to advance with their career and to take care … Continue reading
Women in natural science
Nature Geoscience recently published a letter to the editor entitled Closed Ranks in Oceanography. LuAnne Thompson, Renellys C. Perez and Amelia E. Shevenell show that the situation for female oceanography researchers at US universities has changed markedly between 1980-1995 and … Continue reading
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Tagged female minority, gender equality, geology, male dominance, science career, women scientists
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Women – science – education: continuation
Last week I came across a chronicle by Sindra Peterson Årsköld, Associate Professor in biochemistry at Lund University, entitled chemist and feminist? Yes sure! But beware of gender coaches. Here is the link to her chronicle (written in Swedish): http://www.cmps.lu.se/fileadmin/mps/People/Peterson_AArskoeld/2011_Sindra_Peterson_AArskoeld_i_Kemivaerlden_Biotech.pdf … Continue reading
Women and education – some statistics
I have never really been interested in statistics; often thought that numbers are quite boring. But the other day I found my way to the website of Statistics Sweden and got stuck with their fact sheet ‘På tal om kvinnor … Continue reading
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Why are women scientists still a minority?
Men largely dominate science, despite years of efforts to increase the number of women. Men still outnumber women by far in higher university positions, in science committees, in the number of approved research grants, in the number of published papers, … Continue reading
Barbara Wohlfarth 