FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INVITES YOU TO: GENDER E QUALITY: THE SMART THING TO DO! Lynn Kamerlin Empowerment of Women in the Academic World This lecture will discuss the experiences of being a young female scientist today, the factors contributing to the academic gender gap from a “young” perspective, and provide constructive suggestions for the empowerment of women in the academic world. PLACE: EBC, the VIP-room in the restaurant When: October 13 , 201 5 Time: 12.00 -1 3.00 Lunch-sandwich served from 11.30 Organiser: TekNat, Equal Opportunities Committee. Contact person: Karin Stensjö, [email protected]Register latest 8 October 2015 to Lena Forsell: [email protected]
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Faculty oFScience and technology
inviteS you to:
GENDER EQUALITY:THE SMART THING TO DO!
Lynn Kamerlin
Empowerment of Women in the Academic World
This lecture will discuss the experiences of being a young female scientist today, the factors contributing to the academic gender gap from a “young” perspective, and provide constructive suggestions for the empowerment of women in the academic world.
Abstract Lynn Kamerlin – Empowerment of Women in the Academic World
Rosalind Franklin was a pioneer of structural and molecular biology, famous for her work first towards elucidating the double-helical structure of DNA, and subsequently on tobacco mosaic virus. While her scientific contributions are well document, a lesser-known fact is that less than seventy years ago, in 1951, when Franklin was a female research associate at King’s College London, women were still barred from entering the male dining room, essentially barring them from College academic life. This did not stop Franklin, or her contemporaries Dorothy Hodgkins, Lise Meitner, or any number of the luminary female academics of the last Century from making substantial contributions that have affected how we see the Sciences, Arts and Literature today. Clearly, the situation for women in Academe has improved dramatically since then, with female undergraduates at parity with or even outnumbering their male colleagues in many Western countries. However, numbers still fall steadily as one moves up the academic ladder, with only a very limited relative proportion of women making it to Full Professor and Academic Leadership positions. This lecture will discuss the experiences of being a young female scientist today, the factors contributing to the academic gender gap from a “young” perspective, and provide constructive suggestions for the empowerment of women in the academic world.
