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This report on “Gender Equality Policies in Public Research” is based on a survey among the members of the Helsinki Group, the Commission’s advisory group on gender, research and innovation. It gives a detailed analysis of the current state-of-play of EU Member States’ and associated countries’ initiatives for promoting gender equality in research and innovation. It comes at a critical review point along the path towards a fully operational European Research Area (ERA) and provides timely input for the upcoming ERA Progress Report 2014.

The critical attention feminists have paid to the concept of citizenship has significantly contributed to the contemporary political imagination of citizenship. In this book the authors from the Czech Republic follow up on the feminist debate on citizenship and examine the institutional contexts, ideologies and practices that have shaped opportunities for and barriers to the full citizenship of women in various socio-economic, ethnic and national groups in the communist and postcommunist contexts and specifically in Czech society since the end of the Second World War. This book challenges the static descriptions of the position of women and gender relations in the communist societies of Central and Eastern Europe. The authors point out the differences in the discourse and institutions surrounding work and care and in actual work and care practices during the forty years of the communist regime. The individual chapters in the book identify specific periods under the communist regime and after 1989 that were distinct in terms of how women’s labour market participation, work-life balance, care politics, the position of lone parents, Roma families and foreigners were framed. Moreover, the continuity of discourse, practices, and institutions before and after 1989 is highlighted, demonstrating how difficult it is for cultural and institutional changes to take place even when an important systemic change has occurred in society.

Gender in research and innovation : statistics and indicators

Women employed as researchers still remain a minority, but are they catching up? Is their distribution throughout different fields of science changing over time? Are women effectively progressing in their careers to achieve top-level positions? Are more women sitting on executive or advisory boards of research organisations? The She Figures 2012 contains the most recent available data on the involvement of women covering the period from tertiary education to employment and their work-life outlook, in the 27 EU Member States and in the associated countries