Resources

The podcast, hosted by Westcoast Women in Engineering, Science, and Technology (WWEST), aims to showcase role models for women in STEM. Come along with us as we talk to incredible women in STEM about their lives, careers, and everything in between; as well as experts in issues impacting diversity.

In this seminar, Dr. Denise Cai at Mount Sinai shares her personal accounts in pursuing an academic path. She discusses how she works through impostor syndrome, gender bias, post-partum depression and mommy-guilt in order to find balance in life, love and science.

This podcast series, brought to you by Science|Business, the Elsevier Foundation and the European Women Rectors Association (EWORA), features 15 prominent women rectors or presidents, whose voice will greatly contribute to showcasing the state of affairs of university leadership in Europe and inspire the next generation of female academics and scientists aiming for the top.

Data-led report by Times Higher Education (THE) reveals the extent to which higher education institutions across the globe are contributing to gender equality and provides recommendations on the next steps universities can take to continue making progress.

While women actively participate in the practical work at their organisation, men dodge it. The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers. This is the finding of a recent Danish study on service work – “housework” – in academia.