Men have careers, women have jobs
Boys become engineers, girls study humanistic
Girls are simply better suited for family matters
Men are better leaders than women
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Four questions on boys and girls
VIDEO: There is a lot of conceptions on boys and girls - but what do the experts say? We have put four provocative questions to four Danish Gender Experts. Here are their answers
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Breaking science’s gender barrier
Euronews made a fantastic video and an article on the gender issue using the TWIST exhibition at Experimentarium, Copenhagen, as the off-set.
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Ecsite gender newsletter
In this issue of the Ecsite Quarterly Newsletter, follow (among other gender subjects) the evolution of the Towards Women in Science and Technology (TWIST) as it challenges visitors across Europe to reconsider their gender biases about women in science.
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Diversity is key
Anja Groth is 36. She leads an international group of scientists at BRIC at Copenhagen University. The subject is epigenetics. And diversity is key in more than one way.
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May the best woman win
From very young, Anja Fonseca has been in love with everything ending on -ology. Science has her full attention and she is passionate about pretty much all science related subjects. She loved studying geology at university. But by coincidence she ended up as a weather host at DR, Denmark’s largest TV station. Her face is well known to most people in Denmark.
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It takes both men and women to succeed
Anja Boisen leads a dynamic research team at Denmark’s Technical University. There is no doubt in Anja’s mind that the best results are created when you mix men and women in a research team. Different viewpoints are put into play much easier, the perspective is widened and synergies emerge.
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A career based on positive role models
Anja Andersen is one of her kind in Denmark. She is specialised in something as rare as stardust and how planets are formed. She has a Ph.d in physics and astrophysics. She is a scientist, a lecturer and then she is one of the most gifted science communicators in Europe.
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The success of the criss-cross
Susan Stipp is convinced that great results are reached by teaming up scientists from various disciplines and letting them share their knowledge and viewpoints. Susan herself has studied: geology, geo-chemistry, hydro-geology, engineering, chemistry and physics with emphasis on nano-techniques.
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Scientists are detectives solving mysteries
‘It’s a bit like being a detective and solving mysteries just waiting there to be solved. And being the first in the whole wide world to see the true facts about something you are looking for is… just amazing.’ says Anne Marie Lund Winther, 31 and a very promising Danish scientist.
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Article local press on Gender day
GENDER DAY Events to Celebrate Women in Science March 8 & 10, 2011 Science Centre Città della Scienza, Naples The gender dimension of research shows an extremely low percentage of ...
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TWISTed
Men have careers while women have jobs. That explains why only 18 % of the european professors are women. History and an unconscious bias is to blame for the inequality, that only positive discrimination and open gender politics can bring to an end.
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Gender day
Den 8. marts er ikke alene kvinders internationel kampdag. I år var det også dagen, hvor TWIST-eventen 'Den lille forskel' kulminerede. Tre dage, som handlede om piger og kvinder i naturvidenskab.
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