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Gender balance in the HS division- some personal thoughts

August 14, 2019
Gender balance in the HS division- some personal thoughts
Women Strike in Bern, Switzerland on June 14 2019. Photo Credit: Michel Bührer

Gender balance in the HS division- some personal thoughts On 14 June 2019, there was the Swiss nationwide women strike day, with the main topic of equal pay for equal work (see e.g. here). A good opportunity to share some thoughts about gender balance in the HS division. If you have a look on the HS division composition today, you will see that we have a female president and a female deputy presid ...[Read More]

Quality through Equality – tackling gender issues in hydrology

July 3, 2019
Quality through Equality – tackling gender issues in hydrology

Quality through Equality – tackling gender issues in hydrology Results of a 1-day workshop organised by the University of Bristol’s Water Engineering Group “Science has a diversity problem” (Nature, 2019), and hydrology and the water sciences are no exception. For example, overall only 36% of all EGU medal awardees are female. With 31% of all nominations going to female researchers (Ka ...[Read More]