About: women scientists

Interview: ‘Positive discrimination’ needed for female scientists

Europe should not shy away from positive discrimination as a way to promote women scientists as it will help tackle skills shortages in scientific disciplines, argues the author of a Parliament report on women in science adopted yesterday in an interview with EURACTIV.

ICT industry wants more women engineers

The Commission, together with leading technology companies, is trying to get more young women interested in ICT careers in a drive to avoid a predicted shortage of some 300,000 qualified engineers by 2010.

EU gender report finds women opting for low-paid sectors

While increasing numbers of women are working, they remain underrepresented in sectors considered crucial for economic development which are usually better remunerated, notes the Commission's annual report on equality between women and men.

Interview: Europe far from securing gender balance in science jobs

Promoting gender mainstreaming and increasing transparency in scientists' recruitment processes can help the EU recruit the 700,000 additional researchers it needs to achieve the Lisbon goals, argues Dr. Maren A. Jochimsen in an interview with EURACTIV.

France to boost number of women scientists

Ministerial committee calls for specific measures to make science careers more attractive to French women.

Fewer than one in three EU scientists female

Statistics for the year 2004 show that more than half of the science and technology workforce is female but that actual scientists and engineers continue to be predominantly male.

Networks seek to boost women in science

The European Platform of Women Scientists is preparing an overview of European networks and activities dedicated to promoting women in science.

Report argues business case for women in science

A report on women in industrial research provides companies with hard economic evidence on why they should aim at gender balance in R&D and in senior positions to improve their economic performance.

European Platform of Women Scientists launched

A European platform bringing together women scientists' organisations around Europe is set to counter the current under representation of women in science and to make their voice heard at EU political level.

Wasted talents: female researchers in Eastern Europe

New figures show that many promising female scientists in Eastern Europe and the Baltic states are squeezed out of well-funded research opportunities to the benefit of their male colleagues. "A waste of talent" complains the Commission.

EU think tank urges ‘bridging the gap’ between scientists and journalists

The European Group on Life Sciences (EGLS), a Commission think tank, on 9 July looked into ways to establish closer links between scientists and the media and identified more effective practices to improve balanced media coverage of scientific progress.