Reports & Publications
Reports & Publications section contains a variety of reports and publications related to women’s position in science. We are proud to share with you the following reports and publications:
- Gender Equality Policies in Public Research, EC
- Practical recommendations for research organisations to lead the change towards gender equality in science and technology
- Report on Equality of Women and Men in Science and Research in Slovenia
- Report on Women in Science in Slovenia
- Report on Women in Science in Central and Eastern Europeand the Baltic States - The Enwise Report
- Report on Gender Issues in Science as a Luxury : Enwise follow-up activities in Central Europe
- Publication - The Journal for the Criticism of Science, Special Issues (in Slovene)
- Publication - Women and Science at European Commission
- The article (in Slovene) Women are academic proletariat, by Jasna Kontler Salamon, published in Ona, 24.4.2012 about the real and imaginary barriers women face on their way to achieve leadership positions in Slovenian tertiary education. (foto)
- The 2nd conference of The Commission for Slovene Women in Science "Inequality in science: gender, ethical and civil perspective" took place on 7 March 2012 in Ljubljana. Programme (in Slovene)
- The results of the study Differences in work conditions in science in Slovenia(in Slovene), which was carried out by the Committee for Women in Science, which is an expert body of Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Republic of Slovenia.
- The Commission for Slovene Women in Science held a conference on the social conditions of science, particularly in terms of gender equality on 7 March 2011 at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana. The conference questioned some facts which constitute conditions for scientific work, as well as the facts themselves that Science is producing. The essential background to explore barriers to equal inclusion of women in science and presentation of findings which were brought by women – and single men researchers who base their studies on selected perspective of gender and other sources of social inequality. The discussions within feminist, ethnographic and sociological research were also linked to the current research on working conditions of Slovenian science on one side and the current qualitative methodological approaches on the other side.
- The report on representation of women in boardrooms in EU, 8th March 2011 (in Slovene)
- Interview with Dunja Mladenić - Family friendly science (in Slovene) by Irena Duša, published in magazine Gea, February 2011.
- In Tivolski grad in Ljubljana was on 6th October, 2010 a round table entitled "Family friendly science" in which Slovenian scientists discussed about the topic. Cosmopolitan reported about the event. As part of the roundtable organisers prepared a video.
- Radio news (in Slovene) by journalist Anja Deučman about the visit of the exhibition Women with PhDs in Computer and Information Science in Slovenia in Youth Centre Bistrica ob Sotli (from 29th March to 4th April, 2010), broadcasted on 29th March, 2010 on radio Štajerski val.
- The article (in Slovene) Women can be mothers and successful scientists, by Tanja Potocnik, published in Delo, 11.3.2010, reports about the research, which studied the influence of the motherhod on the woman´s scientifically career.
- The article (in Slovene) For Women in Science, by Marta Krpič, published in Naša žena, in March 2008, presents the sholarship holders of the national program For Women in Science 2008. The program runs since 1998 in cooperation with Unesco and L'oreal. The article also presents the committee, which selected among the candidates.
- The article (in Slovene) Scholarships – For Women in Science, by Jasna Kontler-Salamon, published in NeDelo, 3.2.2008: Unesco in company L'oreal in action For Women in Science grants scholarships for successful women in science.
- The article (in Slovene) Why is so little women employed in science? – It is hard to come back after a year of absence, by Jasna Kontler-Salamon, published in Delo, 30.10.2007, is discuses why is for women much harder to find the job in a science and research than it is for man.
- The article (in Slovene) Creativity and Free Thinking before the Career: A Group Portrait of Nine Women who all holds PhD in ICT, by Jasna Kontler-Salamon, published in Delo, 18.5.2006, presents the exhibition Women with PhDs in Computer and Information Science in Slovenia. Nine women with PhDs in Computer and Information Science reflect on their experience of being a woman in science.
- The article (in Slovene) PhD and the stove, prof. dr. Tamara Lah Turenšek, published in Delo, 3.3.2005, is about the problems, with which women in science in Slovenia are faced with; even though the men and women in Slovenia are equally educated there is a very small percentage of women in leading positions in science, and not many women achieve the highest academic positions. The author of the article states, that the society spent considerable resources for education of women and at the end many women do not have opportunity to contribute to development of science and technology. Several associated issues are pointed out including difference in salaries of women and men in science, lack of support in balancing career and family life and EU efforts to improve the role and place of women in the European scientific research.
- The article (in Slovene) The highlights of the conference about enhancement the role of women in science: The biggest help would be a good daycare center, by Jasna Kontler-Salamon, published in Delo, 23.9.2004, is about the EU efforts to improve the role and place of women in the European scientific research space. It presents the Enwise expert group report and the EU project CEC-WYS. It also explains why the situation in Slovenia is different than in the other Eastern European countries, and presents leading women scientists from Europe and from Slovenia, that are active in efforts to improve the role of women in science.
- The article (in Slovene) The waste of women's talents in science: The majority of women stay on the first steps, by Jasna Kontler-Salamon, published in Delo, 5.4.2004, presents work of Enwise expert group. It presents percentage of women working in science in Slovenia and compares it with other European countries. Dr. Ene Ergma from Estonia and dr. Dunja Mladenić from Slovenia share their experience about the enhancement the role of women in science.
- The article (in Slovene) The waste of women's talents: Why are women in science behind the man?, by Jasna Kontler-Salamon, published in Delo, 2.2.2004, is about the Enwise expert group report and gives a critical review on its content.
- The article (in Slovene) Women set short – Career and child are not going together, by Jasna Kontler-Salamon, published in Delo, 30.12.2002, is about the problems with which women in science in Slovenia are faced with, especially when they are back to work from maternal leave, problems with which they are faced when they are trying to balance career and family life, and how institutions can help with that.
