Three forces holding back women researchers at the University of Copenhagen

The University of Copenhagen, founded some 550 years ago as an institution to educate men to be good priests, has not yet perfected the art of hiring women into senior research and teaching positions.

As of 2019, 26 per cent of the university’s professors were women. In one department this figure was as low as 4.5 per cent.

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To give some context, Denmark ranks below-average among EU countries for the percentage of women employed in ‘Grade A’ academic positions. This report, published in 2018 by the European Commission, shows that Denmark lags behind no fewer than 22 other EU countries on this metric.

The issue of gender inequality within academia has been known and discussed for decades yet still today not enough is being done to resolve the issue. Here is a breakdown of the major problems and major solutions presented and discussed at The University of Copenhagen on Monday 9. March.

Article originally published March 16th, 2020 by Uniavisen. Click here to read the rest of the original piece.