Background and approaching point of the network for female* scientists
Background and approaching point of the network for female* scientists
Background
As is well known,
underrepresentation still exists for women in leadership positions in academia,
including at Goethe University. The reasons for this are diverse and complex.
Research on networks shows three confirmed findings:
Women are less
represented in the strategic networks of science.
They find it more difficult to
access career-relevant scientific networks due to unconscious processes and
existing co-optation structures
Networks are central to entry and
promotion processes, as well as to successful establishment in the science
system, especially in professorships, leadership roles at universities, and as
a spokesperson* in cutting-edge research
This
results in a need for action for a network specifically for the aforementioned
target groups of female scientists*, which can also close a funding gap at
Goethe University.
Approaching point: successful transition phases
These two target
groups have to master three critical transition phases in particular, at which
there are special risks of exclusion for women. To avoid these, special
orientation, reflection, support and qualification offers are very useful:
From the
late postdoc phase into the broader science career, a transition at which a disproportionate
number of advanced postdocs* continue to leave the sciences
in
entering the professorship to quickly distinguish oneself at the new location
and to further develop one's own expertise, especially in the STEM subjects and
medicine, since there are fewer female role models to fall back on
in the
process of promotion to a tenured professorship, for example, tenure-track
professors* should be able to make good use of the development period from the
beginning in order to successfully master the promotion by way of a successful
evaluation, since these processes are not automatized procedures
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