Women in Science | Gender Equality
Promoting gender equality is a core activity for the EU. The European Commission is committed to promoting gender equality in research and innovation. It is part of the European Commission Gender Equality Strategy for 2020-2025, which sets out the Commission’s broader commitment to equality across all EU policies. In addition, the EU has a well-established regulatory framework on gender equality, including binding directives, which apply widely across the labour market including the research sector.
Because of the peculiarities of the research sector, specific action is needed to overcome persisting gender gaps. Many structural barriers to gender equality in research and innovation persist.
The European Commission addresses these barriers through
- the main funding instrument Horizon 2020, the first framework programme to set gender as a cross-cutting issue, with one of the underpinning objectives being to integrate the gender dimension into research and innovation content.
- within the European Research Area in collaboration with member countries and research organisations. Already under the ERA Communication 2012 framework, the European Commission has set 3 objectives to work with EU countries and foster an institutional change (gender equality in scientific careers, gender balance in decision making, integration of the gender dimension into the content of research and innovation).
Infographic: closing gender gaps in research and innovation
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Please find below some gender / women in science related links and articles.
News
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Women in Drina basin have power to solve environmental threats
Women from the political sphere, scientists, activists, and professionals concluded at a workshop organized by GWP-Med that the Drina river basin has a great potential for the benefit of the society in...
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Recently an ERAC ‘Triangle Task Force’ consisting of the Standing Working Groups on Open Science and Innovation (OSI), Human Resources and Mobility (HRM), and Gender in Research and Innovation (GRI), ...
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Women’s Entrepreneurship Expo to boost hundreds of businesses across Europe and Central Asia
UN Women’s first regional “Women’s Entrepreneurship Expo” in Europe and Central Asia will be held virtually with the participation of hundreds of women entrepreneurs from 12 countries. The Expo aims to...
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Events
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Gender Equality Plan Development: Fulfilling the Horizon Europe requirements and beyond!
A Gender Equality plan is a set of actions for the identification of gender bias, implementing procedures to correct them and setting measurable indicators for monitoring...
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The 2021 EUA Annual Conference “Universities 2030: From vision to reality” will take place online on 22-23 April. Against the backdrop of the ongoing climate crisis, fundamental technological advances...
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Navigating through the Social Innovation Tournament application process
Are you considering applying for the Social Innovation Tournament?
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Organisations
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European Institute for Gender Equality
The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) is an autonomous body of the European Union, established to contribute to and strengthen the promotion of gender equality, including gender mainstreaming...
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Women in Tech® is an international organization with a double mission: to close the gender gap and to help women embrace technology. The organization focuses on 4 primary areas that are a call for...
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Millennium Foundation Kosovo* is the implementing entity of the Threshold Program agreed between the Government of the Republic of Kosovo* and Millennium Challenge Corporation. Kosovo* Threshold ...
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Calls
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Submit your Research at Open Research Europe Platform!
Fast publication and open peer review for research stemming from Horizon 2020 funding across all subject areas. Articles are published rapidly as soon as they are accepted, after passing a series of...
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Call for Application | Green Talents Award 2021
The submission period for the Green Talents Competition 2021 is open now. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has held the prestigious “Green Talents – International Forum for...
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This prize celebrates the women entrepreneurs behind Europe’s game-changing innovations
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Documents
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GENDER ANALYSIS 2020 EC COUNTRY REPORTS FOR THE WESTERN BALKANS
This is the third Kvinna till Kvinna Gender Analysis of EC Country Reports for the Western Balkans. The aim is to show progress year on year in the gender-mainstreaming of the Country Reports and attempt...
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[WBC-RTI.INFO Newsletter] -Women in Science | Gender Equality
Promoting gender equality is a core activity for the EU. The European Commission is committed to promoting gender equality in research and innovation. It is part of the European Commission ...
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[Focus Article] - Overview of the gender dimension in the Western Balkans
Gender equality and women’s empowerment are fundamental to sustainable development. Gender equality underpins the prosperity and well-being of economies and societies. Half of the world’s available human...
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Links
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In the context of its mutual learning and capacity building activities, GENDERACTION organised a training on gender equality for policymakers in Athens in June 2019. The event provided a forum for...
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Wikigender is a global online collaborative platform linking policymakers and experts from both developed and developing countries to find solutions to advance gender equality. It provides a centralised...
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EIGE interview on getting more women into ICT: a major opportunity for the European Union
EIGE interviewed ICT companies across the EU-28 and examine initiatives to bring in and retain more women. Currently, only some 17% of ICT professionals in the EU are women. The research found that the...
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Projects
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GRANteD - Grant allocation disparities from a gender perspective
This project studies the occurrence and causes of gender bias in the allocation of research grants. It also studies the consequences of gender bias in grant allocation for gender bias in the development...
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The project aims to create an innovative policy community to implement the gender priority in the European Rearch Area. It is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 in the SwafS-19-2016 callfor a...
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The Western Balkans Science Engagement Programme
The Western Balkan Science Engagement Programme (SEP) aims to contribute to resilience of states, communities and citizens across the Western Balkans to the COVID-19 pandemic and its adverse impacts, ...
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