Competence center women in science and research

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The Competence Center Women in Science and Research (CEWS) is the national hub for realizing equal opportunities for women and men in science and research in Germany. The CEWS acts as a think tank for this policy area. The priority activities include initiating change processes as well as accompanying them scientifically. The resulting exchange processes between science and politics are actively shaped by the CEWS. The field of activity is international, in particular with regard to project work and networking of best practice measures for gender equality at EU level. Organizationally, the CEWS is part of GESIS - Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences .

history

The CEWS was founded on September 29, 2000 as an externally funded project of the University of Bonn on the initiative of the Federal Government in coordination with the Federal Conference of Women's Representatives. The research center was set up for five years with 100% funding from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research . In order to continue the successful work, the Federal-State Commission for Educational Planning and Research Funding (BLK) decided in 2005 to integrate the CEWS into GESIS - Leibniz Institute for Social Sciences from 2006. As a division of GESIS, the tasks remained unchanged.

Target groups

In addition to political committees that seek advice, scientific organizations, universities and research institutions benefit from CEWS expertise with regard to analyzes of the causes of the marginalization of women scientists and the formulation of the resulting recommendations for action. The media continuously use the comprehensive information offered by the CEWS to support current reporting.

The Competence Center Women in Science and Research primarily offers up-to-date, statistic-based and user-friendly information, networking and career advancement services as well as databases for literature research or for the synoptic preparation of science-related equality law.

Service areas

• Social science research on equality in science
• Policy advice
• Knowledge transfer
• Monitoring and evaluation of gender equality measures in science

Information offers

The offers and services of the CEWS are unlimited and free of charge.

• Literature database : The online literature database of the CEWS is a bibliographical database on all relevant aspects of equality between men and women in science and research, on support measures and mentoring , on the living and work situation and on the marginalization of female scientists, which is used by renowned journals.

• Equality law : The database on equality law provides an overview of the equality-relevant regulations in the university laws as well as the science-related regulations on equality between men and women at the federal and state level.

• Overview of women's and gender professorships : The current collection of information provides a detailed overview of all women and gender professorships at German universities and makes them available online.

• FemConsult: The database of female scientists : FemConsult is an online database of female scientists with doctorates and habilitation. It contains up-to-date, scientific profiles of several thousand female experts from all specialist disciplines from German-speaking countries who are active in universities and non-university research institutions as well as in industry and business.

• CEWS project work : Since its inception, CEWS has carried out national and European projects. The focus of the projects is social science research on gender-relevant topics, evaluations of gender equality measures, conception and implementation of events as well as measures for targeted support and networking of women scientists.

Publications

• Manual on equal opportunities policy in research institutions, cews.public, 2001 (PDF)
• Brief expertise on the topic of women in science and research prepared by the Competence Center Women in Science and Research on behalf of the Robert Bosch Foundation , 2006 (PDF; 383 kB)
• Andrea Löther (Ed.): University ranking according to gender equality aspects. cews.public, 2003, 2005, 2007 (PDF)

literature

• Ellen Krause: Introduction to Gender Studies in Political Science. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2003, ISBN 3-8100-3541-6 , p. 372.

Web links

• CEWS website
• GESIS website
• Topic feed "Women in Science and Research" of the CEWS in sowiport

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dr. phil. Karin Zimmermann; Prof. Sigrid Metz-Göckel: Vision and Mission: The integration of gender in the mainstream of European research policy. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-14954-7 , pp. 56–57.
2. ↑ u. a. Evaluation of health research. Expert opinion on the evaluation of equal opportunities for women and men in the health research program of the Federal Government, on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, 2011 [ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ]. 
3. ↑ Federal Ministry of Education and Research: Women in the Science System , January 7, 2011. Accessed June 17, 2011.
4. ↑ CEWS website.Retrieved June 16, 2011.
5. ↑ Ministry of Science promotes family awareness at universities Expertise of the CEWS on behalf of the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg .
6. ↑ Tool box for the research-oriented equality standards of the German Research Foundation , created by the CEWS.
7. ↑ Biennial publication of a higher ranking by gender aspects by the CEWS bmbf.de .
8. ↑ Lisa Becker: The big kink after graduation , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine online, April 26, 2011. Retrieved June 17, 2011.
9. ^ Carsten Heckmann: Professors - When the biological clock is ticking , Spiegel Online , November 14, 2001.
10. ↑ CEWS website.Retrieved June 16, 2011.
11. ↑ Andreas Sentker: Women in Science, Die Zeit , No. 08, February 15, 2007.
12. ↑ FemConsult website.Retrieved June 16, 2011.
13. ↑ EU Office of the BMBF: Gender and Science ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 17, 2011.