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Excellence without Bias

03.10.2018
18:00–20:00
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Excellence without Bias: the Evolution of Gender Equality at the Faculty of Science.

Vernissage of the flyer “Recruiting for excellence”, experience exchange and networking.

Women are vastly underrepresented in higher positions in academia despite the proportion of female PhD students being around 50% at the Faculty of Science (MNF) for quite some time. This phenomenon is called the “leaky pipeline“ as female scientists drop out of science in a higher proportion than their male colleagues. We cannot help but wonder how different and more excellent science could be if we did not lose the talent and perspective of so many female researchers. We know that women in science face pervasive, persistent unconscious bias against them, that they can be judged less competent even when equally able as their male counterpart, and that these consistent “headwinds” mean they must work harder than men to advance in their scientific careers.

In our pursuit of excellence, the Faculty of Science UZH has the goal to increase the number and proportion of female professors in our faculty. Since 2013 the Faculty of Science has explicitly focused on the professorial hiring process in an effort to design out the stages where bias is most present . Measures have been developed to increase the number of highly competitive applications from female scientists for professorships and to reduce the effect of unconscious biases in the search procedures. These measures are summarized in the flyer “Recruiting for Excellence”, of which an updated version will be released at the vernissage.

Fighting the biases that are deeply present in each of us is a long process. It takes a long time to see concrete results in our hiring data, but the cultural shift on gender equality at the Faculty of Science is more palpable. In the second part of the event, members of the MNF and Medical community will share their observations and experiences of the changes.

Contributors:

Prof. Dr. Beatrice Beck Schimmer, Vice President Medicine UZH

Prof. Dr. Roland Sigel, Dean, Faculty of Science, UZH

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schmid, former Dean, Faculty of Science, UZH

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Müller-Böker, Geography, UZH

Sara Petchey, Sustainability and Gender Equality, Faculty of Science, UZH

Dr. Ines Kohler, Faculty Manager, Faculty of Science, UZH

Organized by:

Roland Sigel, Ulrike Müller-Böker, Ines Kohler, Sara Petchey, Petra Seibert

Agenda

100 Ways of Thinking

Fr 24.08.
18:00–23:30
Season Opening
Sa 15.09.
14:00–18:00
Citizen Science Festival
Mi 19.09.
10:30–18:00
Scientific poster design
Do 20.09.
10:30–18:00
Scientific poster design
Sa 22.09.
10:00–12:00
hingescHAUT - nachgebaut
Mi 26.09.
14:00–18:00
3MT: 3 Minute Thesis
Mi 03.10.
10:30–18:00
Scientific poster design
Mi 03.10.
18:00–20:00
Excellence without Bias
Fr 05.10.
14:00–22:00
Muss - Musse - Muse
Fr 05.10.
15:30–17:30
Researchers Experiences at UZH
Do 11.10.
12:00–18:00
Schreibaktiv
Fr 12.10.
10:00–23:45
Science Crowdfunding Festival 2018
Sa 13.10.
11:15–12:00
Playing at Oxide Interfaces
Do 18.10.
18:00–19:30
Wissensalltag / Alltagswissen.
Sa 20.10.
10:00–10:45
Ethik in der Psychotherapie
So 21.10.
11:00–13:00
Living Instruments: Workshop
So 21.10.
15:30–17:00
Living Instruments: Konzert
Sa 27.10.
10:00–10:45
NEUROKOSMOS: Ein- und Ausblicke
Sa 27.10.
11:15–12:00
Cosmetics and Technology
Mi 31.10.
09:00–18:00
Stadt als Spielfeld denken