Lujain Kretzschmar
"Sharing and discussing these experiences with colleagues and supervisors at the time was crucial. It not only helped me build resilience but also fueled my drive for change."
SCIENCeQUALITY
"We would like to provide a tool to everybody who wants to challenge the current status quo of inequality and patriarchy - Think globally, act locally!"
Anne Freese
"We can’t let ourselves be satisfied with the status quo, because it doesn’t do justice to all of us."
Kimberly Mason
"There will be more acceptance and uptake of equal opportunity measures within an institution if people in high positions give their vocal support."
Bettina Schmidt
"Feminist literature provided me with the language to give the elephant in my mind a name: gender bias."
Mary Louise Grossman
"To ensure that recruitment and scientific review processes of all kinds are fair and unbiased, we need to create spaces for informed and constructive dialogue."
Yee Lee Shing
"I have been generally lucky during my career with mentors who are supportive of work-life balance."
Andrew Plested
"Enforcing equality is not only fairer, it's nonsense to do otherwise."
Daniela Vallentin
"Female students sometimes need more encouragement to take the step to apply."
Ruth Weber
"Personally, I have particularly benefited from women's networks. For me, they mean above all the opportunity to exchange ideas and find female role models."
Carla Schriever
"In the context of my project Fem4scholar Mentoring I hear diverse stories almost every day that all come back to the same problem — the unequal treatment of male and female researchers."
Julien Colomb
"For me equal opportunity also means that your job allows your partner to have a career, something which is often incompatible with moving every 3 years and working extra hours."
Caterina Cocchi
"Having female students address me as a role model represents one of the biggest successes of my career so far."
Maurizio Roczen
"I am convinced that many problems concerning equal opportunities are related to gender stereotypes as well as false conceptions of what is required to successfully study a scientific subject."
Wolfgang Karl Härdle
"I strongly believe that there is great value in having a diverse academic and research community, both from a gender point of view, a cultural one and of course a scientific one."