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UNICAFE: Survey of the University Career of Female Scientists at Life Sciences versus Technical Universities
- Abstract
- The aim of the project is to carry out an innovative pilot survey to enhance existing knowledge
on career patterns of women in universities. The project will open up new perspectives for
further in-depth work in the field by mapping the situation of female researchers in
engineering and life sciences in eight universities in six countries in Europe with special
regard to gender differences in research careers, critical areas where women are
underrepresented, leading university positions, access to funding, mobility and work-life balance.
Women face great difficulties in developing professional careers in equal opportunities to those
of men in these sectors, especially regarding their proportion on the higher levels of the
hierarchical ladder. The project will examine and compare the situtation of female researchers
and decision makers. A methodology to map careers in university will be designed and tested
in the partner institutions. The survey will involve PhD students, researchers and decision
makers as well. Besides the collection of detailed statistics which is missing at almost all
involved universities the consortium will conduct interviews with those female researchers
who succeeded in doing a career in these areas of science in spite of the difficulties. The project
will map not only the good practices but the bad ones as well in order to determine how the
career of female researchers is set back in these areas. Furthermore it is one of the objectives of
the project to draw the attention of the university managements to the importance of equal
opportunities of women and men and the practice of gender mainstreaming as a policy of the
European Union. The partner countries include two new member states (Hungary and
Estonia), three old member states (Austria, Finland and Italy) and a candidate country (Turkey),
so they provide an ideal coverage of circumstances available throughout Europe.
- Local Subprojectlead:
- Auer Carolin
- Duration:
- 01.11.2006-31.10.2008
- Programme:
- EU (FP-6)
- Subprogramme
- Science and Society: call identifier FP6-2005-Science-and-society-17, Woman and Science call, line 4.3.5.2.c "Deepening and broadening the quantitative knowledge base on woman and science in Europe"
- EU-Project Instruments
- Specific Support Action (SSA)
- Type of Research
- other
- MUG Research Units
- Organizational Unit for Research Management
- Project partners
- Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
- Hungarian Science and Technology Foundation, Hungary
- Semmelweis University Budapest, Hungary
- Technical University of Istanbul, Turkey
- Technical University of Turku, Estonia
- University of Oulu, Finland
- University of Vergata, Italy