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Test your biasVIDEO: 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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‘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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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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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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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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