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An International Symposium is coming up on the 1st of March throughout a cooperation between the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture and the British Council Vienna within the framework of the programme fFORTE (Frauen in Forschung und Technologie [Women in Research and Technology]): Gender and Science. Women making a difference?

The conference focuses on trends and research in the field of gender, women and science. Both epistemological questions and structural problems are on the agenda. The afternoon will concentrate on empirical findings about and possible solutions for the ongoing underrepresenation of women in many scientific fields. Additionally the conference aims at comparatistic analysis and networking between young scientists. Young scientists from Great Britain, the New Memberstates and Austria are going to take part in the conference as respondents.

The conferences main topics will be Deconstructing/Reconstructing Gender in Scientific Courses, Women Scientists in East and West as well as Plugging the gaps in the leaky pipeline.

Please register for the conference (and there is also an interesting Workshop-Programme!) until Wednesday 23rd of February 2005 via Mail or Fax to Mag. Karin Harrasser, Science Communications, harrasser@science.co.at, Fax: +43-1-5856069-12 - where you can get further Informations...

... or you wait a few days, until Kakanien revisited can provide the details. BTW: We had also the pleasure, a few weeks ago, to publish Sliding Backwards - The Fate of Women in Post-1989 East-Central Europe by Sabrina Ramet. On the Redaktions-Blog is a german Introduction

UPDATE: The programme is online!