This report contains the recommendations of the Panel of Science Leaders, signed, addressed to policy makers and heads of scientific institutions. Prof Claudine Hermann, Vice-President of the European Platform of Women Scientists (ret Professor of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique). In particular, the work of the Panel of Science Leaders has only highlighted the beginning of an important dialogue between gender experts and leaders of scientific institutions.
Recommendations of the Science Leaders Panel
Section I: Knowledge Making
Recommendation 1
Training in sex and gender analysis methods should be integrated into all subjects in all basic and applied science curricula. 4. 4 Londa Schiebinger created a working list of gender analysis methods for the Final Consensus Workshop (June 2010).
Recommendation 3
Section II: Human Capital
Recommendation 4
Recommendation 5
Institutions should seek to improve the quality of their leadership by creating awareness, understanding and appreciation of different management styles. This, in turn, enables a wider range of attractive work environments for a wider range of people. 12. The visibility of a number of different managerial styles makes it more likely that a diversity of individuals (ie more women) will be attracted to managerial positions. 13.
12 Leadership/management styles and followers' perceptions of these styles, along with relationships between women and leadership within gender and dominance patterns, are among the most important issues in qualitative leadership assessment and. This means that men and women may tend to emphasize the type of "leadership" differently.
Recommendation 7
Section III: Practices and Processes
- Recommendation 8
- Recommendation 9
- Recommendation 10
- Recommendation 11
Persons with disproportionate committee and administrative duties should be provided with additional support staff or reduced teaching assignments to ensure that their research does not suffer. Gender balance on committees improves the quality of committee work and symbolically changes institutional cultures.17 However, the demands for gender balance on committees result in a disproportionate burden on committees for women in senior scientific positions.18 Mitigating measures Time pressures associated with large volumes responsibilities in committees, they will achieve the advantages of gender balance, while at the same time they will not take away women's time from research activities. Policies and procedures that specifically affect working conditions that affect men and women differently in scientific institutions should be reviewed and revised to ensure positive benefits for the personal and professional development of both men and women.
For the effectiveness of keeping in touch with those on career breaks, see the Guiding Principles of the Equalitec project (Evans et al., 2007). Finally, if there are no women in the applicant pool, the positions must be re-advertised. Broader advertising protocols open up recruitment to fields where there are more women, which increases the likelihood of applying.
Conversely, encouraging and soliciting applications increases the number of women who apply.23 Women also tend to apply more to re-. Importantly, even if these procedures do not increase the percentage of female applicants in the selection pool (due to a general increase in applications), they will still increase the absolute number of women applying for jobs.
Section IV: Regulation & Compliance
Recommendation 12
Recommendation 13
Consensus Seminar Organisation and Procedure
Consensus Conferences versus genSET Consensus Seminars
During this seminar, the panel also drew attention to questions for professionals in the field of gender research that arose during the discussion and would enrich the understanding of the selected "chapters". This along with a summary of CS I results was sent to the committee prior to the second seminar. These stakeholders provided additional feedback on the feasibility and practicality of the recommendations during plenary discussions with the commission and gender experts.
While the panel worked alone on the final versions of the recommendations, the representatives of stakeholder organizations held separate discussions on implementation plans to follow the consensus seminars. However, the panel members' high professional commitment and unexpected personal responsibilities meant that the participation of all members at each seminar could not be guaranteed. However, those panel members who were unable to attend the final Paris seminar were consulted and sent a copy of the final report for review before signing the document.
The work and ideas on the implementation of the recommendations of the representatives of the stakeholder organizations present at the last consensus seminar will be further discussed during the three capacity building workshops, during which scientific institutions, assisted by gender experts, can consider the feasible implementation of each of the recommended actions. Thus, the consensus report continues to be disseminated on two levels: 1) through the supporting actions of the genSET project itself, as part of the basis for the capacity building workshops and symposia;.
Consensus Seminar Participants
Biographies of Science Leaders Panel Members
Dr Toft Jensen began his career at the Department of Geography at the University of Copenhagen where he worked from 1968 to 1973. He was Chair of the Steering Committee of the EUA Institutional Assessment Program and also represented EUA in the E4 Group until in 2007. Among other things, he is Doctor Honoris Causa of the Linguistic University of Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia.
In this role, his main responsibilities were for developing the future organization of these functions and for future leaders. From there he worked as Director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL), which was the first Center of Excellence at the University of Tromsø and the first group of Centers of Excellence established in Norway. She is currently a member of Lønkommissionen and the Society for Gender Research in Denmark.
Rolf Tarrach is Rector of the University of Luxembourg and President of the Association for Academic Cooperation. He is a former president of the Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC) and a former member of the European Research Advisory Board (EURAB), European Heads of Research Councils (EUROHORCS), Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF2004).
Biographies of Gender Expert Group
His areas of responsibility at Nature include the editorial content and governance of Nature and the long-term quality of all Nature publications. As a professor or senior researcher, she was associated with the universities of Uppsala, Antwerp and Brussels, Ruhr University, Wayne State University, Rutgers University, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. As a policy advisor, she has assisted the European Commission, the Council of Europe, the United Nations and the Flemish government, and is often relied upon for expert input on social exclusion, gender and politics.
She is the Belgian coordinator for the research network Gender and the State, funded by the European Science Foundation and the National Science Foundation, the Belgian representative in the COST A-34 network on European gender and well-being and in ATHENA EU Training and Education 3B network on gender equality and public policies. She is included in the European Commission's list of experts on special issues of science and technology policy, and her work has been funded by the ESRC and the European Commission. She collaborated with the European Commission's Directorate-General for Research in the production of She Figures and was a member of the ETAN/STRATA expert group on the situation of female scientists in Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic States.
She is on the editorial board of Equal Opportunities International magazine and the International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology. Recent research includes a research project for Equalitec, funded by the European Social Fund and the Department of Trade and Industry, on the practices of organizations recruiting women in information technology, electronics and communications.
Gender Experts Advising on Briefing Notes
His research deals with comparative public policy and the organization of the European Union, especially in the field of transnational mobilization of civil society, gender, migration and equality. As an active member of the section of the European Consortium for Policy Research on European Union Policy, she convened a stream on Diversity, Gender and European Integration at biennial conferences in Bologna, Istanbul and Riga. She was the scientific coordinator of the action conference COST European Social Movements and Well‐Being at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam in March 2009.
She is also an active researcher at the French National Center de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) under the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (INSHS). Her current research focuses on media coverage of public debates on the social implications of biotechnology. She has taught several university courses on these topics and written several articles about science and gender.
She is now employed by the Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions, where she works with policy makers to improve gender balance in the research sector. She holds a BSc Hons in Genetics from the University of Nottingham, and a PhD, MRC LMB, from the University of Cambridge.
Stakeholder Organisations Represented in Final Consensus Seminar in Paris
Dr. Linda Marie Rustad is senior advisor to the committee for gender balance in research in Norway. Science Foundation Ireland is a statutory body in the Republic of Ireland with responsibility for providing funding for basic scientific research with a strategic focus. It invests in academic researchers and research teams that are likely to generate new knowledge, leading technologies and competitive businesses in science and engineering supporting the fields of biology, ICT and sustainable energy.
SPRU (Science and Technology Research) is a leading department at the University of Sussex combining high level research and policy with postgraduate education in science, technology and innovation policy and management. It is the center of a global network of interdisciplinary researchers engaged in the analysis of the pace and direction of scientific change and innovation and pathways to a more sustainable society. University of Vienna is one of the largest and oldest universities in the German-speaking area.
It coordinates a Center for Gender Equality and offers several measures aimed at gender equality and the advancement of women in academia, especially in the sciences.
Appendix 1
List of References Used in the Consensus Report
Studying mathematically precocious youth after 35 years: Uncovering antecedents to the development of math-science expertise.
Appendix 2
