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GenPORT joins the celebration of the International Day of Action for Women’s Health (#May28) with this short post on Barbara McClintock, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology (1983).

In this video, Jeff Hearn provides a short but comprehensive response to the question “What is gender?”. Aimed it all audiences, he explains how bodies, social institutions or knowledge, science and technology are gendered.

Supporting women scientists as individuals is not enough to reach gender equality in our scientific institutions.  What is required is system-level attention to the structures, practices and cultures of these institutions and how they may perpetuate inequality, even unwittingly.

Next in our video interview series, we have Sanne Peters who is a Research Fellow in Epidemiology at University of Oxford (UK).

There are many kinds of statistics that relate to gender in and around science, technology and innovation. But before going through some of the useful sources, some words of caution are necessary.

In this interview Prof. Dr. Martina Schraudner explains how technical innovations are more successful when including a gender diversity perspective.

The European project GENERA aims to help research performing and research funding organisations to create and implement gender equality plans (GEP).

This weeks’ video interview features Arn Sauer who is currently Research Officer for Gender Equality & Gender Mainstreaming at Environmental Federal Agency, Germany.  

Engendering Habitat III

Facing the Global Challenges in Cities, Climate Change and Transport,

5th and 6th October, 2016  Madrid.