Science policies in the
European Union:
Promoting excellence through
mainstreaming gender equality
European Commission
Research Directorate-General
A Report from the
ETAN Expert Working Group
on Women
and Science
Published by the EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Research Directorate-General
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Mary Osborn (Chair)
Cell
biologist, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen and
honorary Professor University of Göttingen, Germany
Teresa Rees (Rapporteur)
Professor of Social Sciences, University of Cardiff, UK & Equal Opportunities
Commissioner
for Wales
Mineke Bosch
Associate Professor, Centre for Gender and Diversity, University of
Maastricht, The Netherlands
Helga Ebeling
Head of Division for Women in Education and Research, Federal Ministry of
Education and Research, Bonn, Germany
Claudine Hermann
Professor
of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
Jytte Hilden
former Minister for Research and Information Technology, Denmark
Anne McLaren
Principal Research Associate, Institute of Cancer and Developmental Biology,
University of Cambridge, UK
Rossella Palomba
Department Head, National Institute
for Population Research, Rome, Italy
Leena Peltonen
Chair of Human Genetics, UCLA School of Medicine and Professor of
Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Finland
Carmen Vela
Managing
Director of Ingenasa, Spain
Dominique Weis
FNRS Research Director, Earth scientist, University of Brussels, Belgium
Agnes Wold
Associate Professor, Clinical Immunology, Göteborg
University, Sweden
Alternates
Joan Mason
Chair of Association for Women in Science and Engineering, UK
Christine Wennerås
Assistant Professor, Medical Microbiology, Göteborg University, Sweden
Science policies in the European Union:
Promoting excellence through mainstreaming gender equality
A report prepared for the European Commission by the independent ETAN Expert Working Group
on women and science
European Technology Assessment Network
(ETAN) on Women and Science
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