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08.03.2021

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International Women's Day 2021 - Gender Equality in Research

For International Women's Day 2021 we asked the women members of our Governing Board about their own experiences as women leaders and discussed what is or can be done to improve gender equality in research.

Thank you to Ingrid Petersson, Director General of the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (FORMAS), Rosa Menéndez, President of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Angelika Kalt, Director of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), and Melanie Welham, Executive Chair UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) for contributing to this video.

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