Frauen in Europa

Experts Workshop

6.–7. December 2007, Kassel

What course does a woman’s academic career take in different European countries? What conditions are responsible for the fact that female scientists and re-searchers are so often marginalised to the precariously employed and unemployed members of academic society? What circumstances advance, what circumstances hinder equalisation in science and acade-mia? Which equal opportunity policies are being fol-lowed, and what institutions are responsible for imple-menting them? And just in what shape is the equal op-portunity culture, anyhow? How important is mobility within the European academic landscape to women?

In the “European Year of Equal Opportunities for All” the GEW’s thirtieth seminar for women working in re-search and academia offers the opportunity to discuss these questions with representatives from Sweden, Latvia, the United Kingdom and Germany. The seminar will also essay to make the European academic landscape more accessible to junior researchers and provide an op-portunity to form contacts with colleagues from other countries. Last but not least, prospects and plans for in-ternational and concerted union work to further equali-zation in academia and research are to be developed.