Women in Science Symposium

🏆 Recently, the Nobel Prizes have been announced. Every single one of the awardees deserves the recognition. But if you look at the gender distribution, you notice that #women are underrepresented. Women have been doing great things in #science for decades, but they still land in top positions far too rarely or are unable to earn merit to the same extent as men. A look at the statistics of the Nobel Prizes proves it. Only 6.4 percent of all awards given since 1901 have gone to women.

🤔 But why is this so? How can women give their scientific careers a boost to gain more recognition? And what role models exist and how can young female researchers learn from them?

👩‍🔬 On October 6th, our iFIT #Symposium Women in Science gave female #reseachers from the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and the Universitätsklinikum Tübingen possible answers to these questions.

💪 Our invited speakers gave inspirational talks to the young audience presenting their career path and giving information about supporting programs, pitfalls and options to combine #career and #family as a woman. More than 40 participants came together to listen to the presentations and engaged in intensive discussions with the speakers in separate round table discussions. You could really feel how much all the participants, but also the speakers, want to positively shape and improve the situation for women in science in the future!

🙏 A big thank you to our speakers:

Saskia Biskup, Managing Director at CeGaT GmbH
Dorothee Kaiser, Founder & Coach at dk Coaching
Caroline Liepert, Head of Research Department at Baden-Württemberg Stiftung
Daniela Neu, Officer for Equality, Diversity & Internationalization at Medical Faculty of Tuebingen
Ghazaleh Tabatabai, Director, Department of Neurology & Neuro-Oncology at University Hospital of Tuebingen
Nicola Ternette, Principal Investigator for Antigen Discovery at University of Oxford
Iris Zhou, Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School