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Take advantage of extended early bird rate. Extended until 14 April. The Call for Abstracts deadline has also been extended. Join us at the Gender Summit 4 EU to explore Gender in Horizon 2020 with leaders in research, policy and industry from across the world.

The IOP's Women in Physics Group announce the 2014 call for nominations to the Shell and Institute of Physics Very Early Career Woman Physicist of the Year.

Caring for Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes, Why Gender Matters

Comentry by  Chloe E. Bird (@ChloeBirdPhD), Senior Social Scientist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School

We are looking for a talented Drupal developer to support GenPORT. The part-time position will be for 28 months starting in April 2014. The selected candiate will work at the UOC in Barcelona, Spain.

We are looking for an imaginative and enthusiastic student to undertake a PhD study into the impact of social class, gender and ethnicity on young people’s engagement with science.

Máire GEOGHEGAN-QUINN, European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science delivered a speech today to the Joint Event on Women Researchers and presentation of the Atomia prize, outlinig some previous work and how equality and gender issues will be intergrated into Horizon 2020.

The FP7 Project GENOVATE Convention took place on the 5th of March 2014 at the Trnava University in Slovakia. The project can be seen as a “sister” project of GenPORT.

The opening talk at the inaugural annual Merton Equality Conversation, given by Professor Dame Athene Donald FRS at the TS Eliot Theatre, Merton College, Oxford, on Thursday 20 February 2014.

Physicians have long known that oxygen deprivation to the brain around the time of birth causes worse damage in boys than girls.