EELISA Alliance is rooted on the “shared values of democracy, diversity, inclusion and gender equality as the conditio sine quanon to create a European society based on cooperation and sustainability”. 

What EELISA is doing

 

  • A Gender Equality and Diversity Working Group made of the gender equality and diversity experts from each of our institutions. Do want to know more about Gender Equality at EELISA partners? Check out their websites: SSSA, SNS, ITU, FAU, UPM, UPB, BME, PSL, ENPC.

 

Areas of intervention following EIGE principles

Women in Science - Some facts

There are still persistent gender gaps in higher education as well as in research and innovation and in the labour market (‘She figures’). While at bachelor and master levels, women outnumber men as students and graduates, and while there is almost gender balance at the doctoral level, there are large gender differences across fields of study – in the STEM fields, women still represent slightly less than a third of students at bachelor and master levels, and 37% of doctoral candidates. Only 33% of Europe’s researchers are women (all fields), and they remain under-represented at the highest level of academia, with only 26% of full professorship positions held by women (‘She figures’ report).

Women in science at EELISA level

According to the latest data gathered at EELISA level, the ratio of women among doctoral graduates ranged between 25% to over 40% at various partners in the academic year 2021/2022. Out of 2,330 graduates having obtained their PhD in one of the EELISA institutions in the year 2021-2022, an average of 37% of doctoral graduates were women.

Data gathered show that women are in general underrepresented among the academic staff at EELISA level. In 2022 (lastest data available), women represented 36% of EELISA overall academic and research workforce and 29% of EELISA Grade A academicians (grade A = highest level at which research is performed, typically full professors). Gender gaps and gender balance vary significantly from one EELISA partner to another.

 

Interested in knowing more? You can acces here a report providing detailed information and sex-disaggregated data for the research and innovation dimension of EELISA. 

Gender dimension in research and innovation

 

Gender equality contributes to the integrity and societal responsibility of research, leveraging scientific and technological quality to higher standards, namely through the gender dimension in research and innovation. Indeed, sex and gender analysis are factors that can affect the quality of research results, and can influence research and innovation decisions when setting priorities, designing studies, communicating results. Do you want to know more? Review our workshop ‘Gender Dimension in Research’  (5 October) here.