Views and Ideas

Draw The Line! And Break The Pattern!

These two reports are the main results of the project UPGEM – understanding puzzles in the gendered European map, where gender differences in the physics culture across the north and south, and east and west of Europe are studied. One of the interesting outcomes of the project is a classification of the working culture in research group, which they believe can be classified into three different types: Hercules, Caretaker and Worker-Bee. The reports can be downloaded here.

What you should know about Women and Physics

A pamphlet about gender equality at the department of Physics was made at the University of Helsinki in 2008. The pamphlet can be downloaded here.

Career Break Management

The Institute of Physics has in january 2006 published this guide on how to prepare and plan a career break. The guide gives advice on how to prepare yourself and your colleagues on a career break, and how to get back into science after the break. The report can be downloaded here.

Det betaler sig at støtte kvinders forskning! (in Danish)

This small booklet from 2005 descibes the outcome of a nationally funded research program called FREJA, which was aimed at increasing the proportion of women in science in Denmark. The booklet individually describes the outcome of the 16 research projects that got funded by the FREJA-programme. The booklet can be downloaded here.