Social Safety in Dutch Academia - From Paper to Practice

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Three outstanding women researchers were recently awarded the inaugural Sony Women in Technology Award, in collaboration with Nature, for…

Creating a socially safe working environment and addressing inappropriate behavior in the workplace remains a persistent challenge—even…

Since 1901, only 25 women have won a Nobel Prize in the sciences. This year, all prizes in the categories of physics, chemistry, and…

The film Going Beyond Gender highlights the diverse experiences and backgrounds of five women in academia and how this diversity influences…

Pallas Athena
The Greek goddess Pallas Athena is the feisty goddess of wisdom. The owl is her symbol. It is true: she was born, fully armed, from the head of her father Zeus, and can be pretty male-identified at times. The first women in academia did sometimes show this trait. But we are happy to carry out our missions under Athena’s aegis.

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