• Links to networks promoting women in science / research / career
  • femdat.ch. femdat is a comprehensive Swiss database of women scientists and experts from various professions. femdat makes it quick and easy to find and contact women with extensive experience in science, trade and industry or a number of other fields. Each expert can be selected according to subject, specialisation, training, profession, language or other criteria
  • Association Pacte. Fondée à Lausanne en 2002, Pacte est une Association professionnelle dynamique et créative qui a pour but de favoriser l'accès des femmes à des postes à responsabilités.
  • The Career Women's Forum (CWF) is a not-for-profit association reuniting over 200 women of more than 20 different nationalities professionally active in all economic, political and social sectors of life.
    Geneva-based, the principal goal is to encourage women in professional life to further their professional development through the sharing and exchange of ideas and information through the Forum's extensive network.
  • FrauenLandsGemeinde Aargau stärkt und ermutigt Frauen, vernetzt Frauen und fördert deren Zusammenarbeit, organisiert regelmässig eine Tagung mit dem Ziel, Gleichstellung zu fördern, initiiert / unterstützt / leitet verschiedene Frauenprojekte
  • Instrumentenkasten der DFG. Mit dem Instrumentenkasten stellt die DFG ein besonderes Informationssystem über Maßnahmen zur Erhöhung der Chancengleichheit in der Wissenschaft zur Verfügung.
  • EU legislation - equality between women and men
  • The Swiss Conference of Gender Equality Delegates brings together federal, cantonal and communal equality offices. 
    The Conference supports, coordinates, plans and implements activities of national scope, takes a hand in shaping public opinion and influences federal legislation with the aim of incorporating viewpoints specific to women and gender equality concerns in order to achieve a sustainable, coherent policy on equal opportunities.
  • The European Commission set up the gender & excellence expert group to look into the research funding and grant systems in Europe and to provide recommendations on the improvement of transparency in the procedures used in selection committees for the award of grants and fellowships and in access to research funding in general.
  • Fem Wiss; der Verein Feministische Wissenschaft Schweiz ist ein unabhängiger nationaler Akteur im Bereich Gleichstellungs- und Wissenschaftspolitik.
  • Le programme d’ateliers REGARD est issu de l’initiative des déléguées à l’égalité des universités de Suisse latine. Il propose des ateliers de formation continue en genre et en égalité ouverts aux femmes de la relève académique et aux professeur-e-s de ces institutions.
    

• Links to networks concerned with gender research
  • Commissioned by the SNSF, the “Gender and Research Funding” (GEFO) study sheds light on the position of women in science and research funding. Synthesis report.
  • Centre en Etudes Genre LIEGE de l'Université de Lausanne
  • Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Geschlechterforschung der Universität Bern IZFG

28.09.2009