Online-Film und ‑Panels: Gender equality in science: Are we there yet?

International Women’s Day 2021 @UniVie
Film screening and panel discussions March 7–14 via online stream

Pro­cee­ding with pas­si­on, per­sis­tence and perspectives

On the occa­si­on of Inter­na­tio­nal Women’s Day we cele­bra­te fema­le sci­en­tists with a film scree­ning and two panel dis­cus­sions. We invi­te you to get to know both Aus­tri­an and Cana­di­an sci­en­tists and explo­re with us chal­lenges women face on their way to suc­cess. Spe­cial guest Hon. Kirs­ty Dun­can, for­mer Cana­di­an Minis­ter of Science.
With this event we want to rai­se awa­re­ness of the on-going trans­for­ma­ti­on of sci­en­ti­fic work envi­ron­ments across gen­der and exami­ne the oppor­tu­ni­ties young fema­le sci­en­tists have today.

Regis­tra­ti­on: https://wochem.univie.ac.at/int-womens-day-2021/

Pro­gram:

Film screening ‚Ms. Scientist‘ by Brandy Yanchyk: March 7–14 2021, stream (45min, Canada, 2018)

„Around the world the fields of sci­en­ti­fic rese­arch and deve­lo­p­ment remain a male-domi­na­ted envi­ron­ment. Accor­ding to the UNESCO Insti­tu­te for Sta­tis­tics less than thir­ty per­cent of the world’s rese­ar­chers are women. Many women enter a care­er in sci­ence but lea­ve becau­se of road­blocks and chal­lenges. Cana­da wants to chan­ge that.

Bran­dy Yanchyk’s docu­men­ta­ry Ms Sci­en­tist explo­res how Cana­da is try­ing to get fema­le sci­en­tists to stay in the fields of sci­ence and pro­gress to the top. Ms Sci­en­tist looks at the suc­ces­ses and chal­lenges that Canada’s fema­le sci­en­tists face. The film del­ves into their lives and exami­nes the obs­ta­cles that are hin­de­ring their suc­cess such as balan­cing fami­ly and work, sexu­al harass­ment and uncon­scious bias.“ source: brandyyanchyk.com/ms-scientist

Canadian panel: March 7–14 2021, stream

Jackie Daw­son
Co-Sci­en­ti­fic Direc­tor, Net­work of Cen­tres of Excel­lence, Arc­tic­Net, Cana­da Rese­arch Chair in Envi­ron­ment, Socie­ty and Poli­cy, Asso­cia­te Pro­fes­sor, Fel­low of the Roy­al Cana­di­an Geo­gra­phic Socie­ty, Col­lege of the Roy­al Socie­ty of Canada
Dépar­te­ment de géo­gra­phie / Depart­ment of Geo­gra­phy, Insti­tut de recher­che sur la sci­ence, la socié­té et la poli­tique (ISSP) / Insti­tu­te for sci­ence, socie­ty and poli­cy (ISSP), Uni­ver­si­té d’Ot­ta­wa / Uni­ver­si­ty of Otta­wa, Ota­wa, Onta­rio, Canada

Hon. Kirs­ty Dun­can, M.P., Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Eto­bicoke North, Eto­bicoke, Onta­rio, Canada

Bran­dy Yan­chyk, Inde­pen­dent docu­men­ta­ry film­ma­ker and jour­na­list, Direc­tor, pro­du­cer, wri­ter and nar­ra­tor of Ms. Sci­en­tist, Edmon­ton, Alber­ta, Canada

Mode­ra­tors: Vere­na Pich­ler, Assistant Pro­fes­sor, Depart­ment of Phar­maceu­ti­cal Che­mis­try, Uni­ver­si­ty of Vien­na, Vien­na, Austria

and Andrea Tan­zer, Eli­se-Rich­ter Fel­low, WoChem – Women in Che­mis­try, Foun­der and Coor­di­na­tor, Com­pu­ta­tio­nal Geno­mics, Cen­ter for Ana­to­my and Cell­bio­lo­gy, Medi­cal Uni­ver­si­ty of Vienna

Austrian panel: March 9 2021, 18:30–19:30 live + stream afterward

Bar­ba­ra Fischer, Eli­se Rich­ter Fel­low, Depart­ment of Evo­lu­tio­na­ry Bio­lo­gy, Unit for Theo­re­ti­cal Bio­lo­gy, Uni­ver­si­ty of Vienna

Sabi­ne Grenz, Univ-Prof. for Gen­der Stu­dies, Facul­ty of Phi­lo­so­phy and Edu­ca­ti­on, Depart­ment of Edu­ca­ti­on, Uni­ver­si­ty of Vienna

Chris­ta Schle­per, Uni­ver­si­ty Pro­fes­sor, Head of Depart­ment of Func­tion­al and Evo­lu­tio­na­ry Bio­lo­gy, Head of Archaea Bio­lo­gy and Eco­ge­no­mics Unit, Uni­ver­si­ty of Vienna

Bar­ba­ra Scho­ber, Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Psych., Facul­ty of Psy­cho­lo­gy, Depart­ment of Deve­lo­p­men­tal and Edu­ca­tio­nal Psy­cho­lo­gy, Uni­ver­si­ty of Vienna

Lena Vogel­mann, Gen­der Equa­li­ty and Diver­si­ty Unit, Visu­al Socio­lo­gy, Uni­ver­si­ty of Vienna

Mode­ra­tor: Lena Yad­la­pal­li, Com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on & Media Rela­ti­ons, Facul­ty of Che­mis­try, Uni­ver­si­ty of Vienna