Promoting talents, spreading excellence. Empowerment of the next generation of researchers. MSCA 2014 Conference. Trento November,

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1 Enhedens navn Promoting talents, spreading excellence. Empowerment of the next generation of researchers. MSCA 2014 Conference. Trento November, Dr. Hilda Rømer Christensen Head of the Co-ordination for Gender Research Department of Sociology University of Copenhagen Denmark Sted og dato Dias 1

2 Enhedens navn Challenge Attractive working and social security conditions in Europe for ANY talented researchers. best practices and solutions for supporting international mobility, parental leave, academic couples following dual careers etc.) Sted og dato Dias 2

3 Enhedens navn Focus: 1. Framing Gender mainstreaming in Horizon 2020 and MSCA 2. What is the problem? and fixing strategies? 3. New architecture of scientific excellence and care in Europe 4. Gendered Innovations: A couple of suggestions Sted og dato Dias 3

4 Gender Equality strategies in the 21 century: Gender mainstreaming Global strategy_ UN, Europe, national WP Women s participation GD: Gender Dimension All encompassing goals Slow track Gender quotas Local and scattered Women s participation/gender balance Politics,.boards, min 40 % Limited goals Fast track

5 Gender Mainstreaming Tools: Gender-disaggregated statistics. Equality indicators Monitoring, evaluating, auditing. Gender equality needs to be regarded as a performance indicator Gender balance in decision-making. in targets and laws.. Sweden, Finland. ( % of both sexes on public committees. EUs research directorate. Scientific committee: 40 % of both genders Spain: political quotas, France: principle of parité Gender budgeting. Public budgets spent on men and women, girls and boys. analysis of imbalances - strategic and equal allocation of resources. visioning At the heart of mainstreaming analytical reconcidering of time, space, work, care, knowledge production ingendered terms.

6 Enhedens navn Gender mainstraming of Horizon 2020 Womens-s participation: Gender balance in research teams - Gender balance in decision making - goal: 40 % of underrepresented gender Gender Dimension: Integration of gender/sex analys in R and I content. Topics with an explicit/implicit gender dimension in applications Gender training as eligible cost of an actions- develop and share gender expertise Sex/gender: biological and Sted og cultural dato factors Dias 6

7 What is the problem? Gender Gaps ( 2006 graduates) humanities (52% of women) social sciences and business law (47% of women) health and welfare (54% of women). agricultural and veterinary sciences (51% of women) On the contrary, the field of science, mathematics and computing 41 % women engineering, manufacturing and construction 25 % MSCA actions: / FP 7 evaluation FP 7 12 % of MSCA actions in humanities and social sciences

8 MSCA goals and budget: Focusing on excellence, cross border and cross sector mobility, innovative training, contribute to Europes overarching goal to promote smart economic and imployment growth. 8 % of Horizon 2020 budget to MSCA billion. Flagship for gender balance 40 % women in the program

9 MSCA - H 2020: family and women friendly? full social benefits and very competetive salaries Stable career path, achieve an appropriate work, life balance, taking into account their family situation. No restrictions to citizenship and age Increase family allowance/ possible career start All MSCA projects take measures to facilitate mobility and counter-act gender related barrieers Equal opportunities ensured for researchers and descision making/ supervision

10 Fix the women? Increase family allowance/ possible career start All MSCA projects take measures to facilitate mobility and counteract gender related barriers Equal opportunities ensured for researchers and descision making/ supervision women carrieer breaks / 56 % men 24 % women: + conflicts professional and private life.. / lower carrieer targets

11 A new welfare architecture for Europe? comprehensive social investment strategy in favour of families with children. (childcare) Child friendly policy women friendly policy including paternity leave Flexible Citizenship access to social welfare for transnational scholars Men as fathers and care takers? Parenthood and new family models?

12 Fix the fathers? Currently men are part of a silent revolution. They do not burn their boxer shorts because they are angry, they just have a real wish to take care of their kids Men want gender equality but currently society lacks behind. ( Manu Sareen. Minister for Equality, DK )

13 Parental leave lenght /benefit

14 Public expenditure on childcare including pre-primary education services (as % of GDP) in 2007 % GDP Pre-primary spending as a % of GDP Childcare spending as a % of GDP Total*

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17 Fixing Scientific Excellence intersecting categories and indexes?? Times Higher Education

18 New family forms in East and West.

19 Fix the budgets and principles? competence next generation - Support for emerging talent Open to all domains of research and innovation from basic research to market take up and innovation services Research and innovation fields chosen freely by the applicants FP 7 12 % of MSCA actions in humanities and social sciences?? Gender balance? Other balances Interdisciplinarity? Gender dimension in research? Gendered Innovations Fully buttom up manner

20 Gendered Innovations in MSCA? Horizon 2020 principles of Gender mainstreaming: Women s participation Gender dimension MSCA: enhance knowledge production in these fields suggestion: gendered innovations: targeted fellowships!

21 Enhedens navn Paradise redefined? Qualitative analysis of the new generation of transnational European researchers: hopes, fears, success and failures Sted og dato Dias 21