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Fundamental Questions Schriften zur Gleichstellung 51 Ulla Weber (ed.) Fundamental Questions Gender Dimensions in Max Planck Research Projects Nomos https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748924869, am 01.10.2021, 11:01:50 Open Access - http://www.nomos-elibrary.de/agb Schriften zur Gleichstellung herausgegeben von Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Susanne Baer Marion Eckertz-Höfer Prof. Dr. Jutta Limbach ✝ Prof. Dr. Heide Pfarr Prof. Dr. Ute Sacksofsky Band 51 https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748924869, am 01.10.2021, 11:01:50 Open Access - http://www.nomos-elibrary.de/agb BUT_Weber_7096-0_OA-online.indd 2 14.04.21 13:13 Ulla Weber (ed.) Fundamental Questions Gender Dimensions in Max Planck Research Projects Nomos https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748924869, am 01.10.2021, 11:01:50 Open Access - http://www.nomos-elibrary.de/agb BUT_Weber_7096-0_OA-online.indd 3 14.04.21 13:13 Open Access funding provided by Max Planck Society. Proofreading: Verena Fuchs, Corinna Pusch, Peter Love, Birgit Kolboske. The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de ISBN 978-3-8487-7096-0 (Print) 978-3-7489-2486-9 (ePDF) British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-3-8487-7096-0 (Print) 978-3-7489-2486-9 (ePDF) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Weber, Ulla Fundamental Questions Gender Dimensions in Max Planck Research Projects Ulla Weber (ed.) 235 pp. Includes bibliographic references. 1st Edition 2021 © Ulla Weber (ed.) Published by Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Waldseestraße 3 – 5 | 76530 Baden-Baden www.nomos.de Production of the printed version: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Waldseestraße 3 – 5 | 76530 Baden-Baden ISBN 978-3-8487-7096-0 (Print) ISBN 978-3-7489-2486-9 (ePDF) Onlineversion DOI https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748924869 Nomos eLibrary This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial – No Derivations 4.0 International License. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748924869, am 01.10.2021, 11:01:50 Open Access - http://www.nomos-elibrary.de/agb BUT_Weber_7096-0_OA-online.indd 4 14.04.21 13:13 Table of Contents PREFACE: Gender-Sensitive Research at the Max Planck Society 7 Ulla Weber Discrimination in Algorithmic Decision Making 15 Isabel Valera Time to Rethink the Default Settings in Neuroscience: Hormonal Transition Periods as Natural Experiments and Why Sex Matters. 27 Rachel G. Zsido, Julia Sacher Edyth von Haynau, Edyth Arnaldi and Rosa Rosà: One Woman, Many Souls 43 Lisa Hanstein Between Commitment and Disengagement: The Art of Women in Rome in the Sixties 65 Giorgia Gastaldon Gender Roles in 14th and 15th Century Italian Art 85 Philine Helas Hierarchies. Lotta Support, Little Science? Scientists and Secretaries in the Max Planck Society 105 Birgit Kolboske Women in Creative Labor: Inventors, Entrepreneurs and Academics 135 Laura A. Bechthold, Marina Chugunova, Svenja Friess, Karin Hoisl, Michael E. Rose Paradigmatic Change in Gendered Labor Market Policies in Turkey 155 Elifcan Celebi 5 https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748924869, am 01.10.2021, 11:01:50 Open Access - http://www.nomos-elibrary.de/agb Table of Contents Gender Inequality and Emotions: Hostility against Women in Contemporary Turkey 171 Esra Sarioglu Gender Discrimination Survey in the STEM Field: a Case Study of Korean Science High Schools 183 Ju Young Lee Preventing Sexual Violence against Women and Children: a Comprehensive Research Perspective 199 Gunda Wössner Women in the Captaincy of Paraíba: a Legal History Approach to the Sources of Colonial Brazil 209 Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva 6 https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748924869, am 01.10.2021, 11:01:50 Open Access - http://www.nomos-elibrary.de/agb PREFACE: Gender-Sensitive Research at the Max Planck Society Ulla Weber Central Gender Equality Officer, Max Planck Society Some people might assume that gender research, or gender-sensitive re- search, and basic research do not go together. A look inside the Max Planck Society over the last five to six years provides a different picture and reveals a close connection between both fields. One will find three levels in which gender research leads to crucial findings which can be used to opti- mize the framework conditions for research, the quality of research, and the impact it has on improving our society. GENDER RESEARCH: BASIS FOR A SMART GENDER EQUALITY STRATEGY Although it is well known, and almost everyone wants to do something about it, the scientific community still displays gender inequality in terms of personnel, which works to the detriment of female scientists and leads to a significant gender imbalance.1 Research organizations, including the Max Planck Society, have been addressing female under-representation in the sciences since the early 1990s with a wide range of gender equality measures. Initially, these were mainly affirmative action measures for women, such as women-only positions, mentoring, training, and coaching —measures that were specifically aimed at “fixing” the women. All these 1 The structural discrimination of women in the labor market is not limited to sci- ence. The quantitative findings are numerous and sobering. Despite the continu- ous increase in the proportion of women in science as a whole, this figure drops dramatically the higher one climbs the career ladder, and the over-representation of male scientists in universities and research organizations is considerable. The A level professors and directors in German research organizations are 84 percent male, in universities 80 percent male. These figures are reflected in the number of publications and authorships, in the gender distribution among Nobel laureates, and even on Wikipedia women scientists are significantly less represented than their male colleagues. 7 https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748924869, am 01.10.2021, 11:01:50 Open Access - http://www.nomos-elibrary.de/agb Ulla Weber tools and programs were based on the assumption that females are some- how unfit for a scientific profession—unrelated to scientific knowledge, but focusing on strategic competencies. Our research organization imple- mented a leadership program, a fund to finance scientific positions for fe- males only, a mentoring network, and various soft skill seminars to em- power female scientists. Then, some years ago, the Max Planck Society changed their gender equality strategy, based on research findings. Three observations led to this. First, there was the change of societal thinking at that time. Since then, various scientific studies have demon- strated the influence of gender stereotypes on performance evaluation and personnel selection in science. Second, it became obvious that although measures designed to support individual women achieved some good re- sults in terms of the individual development of these women, and in- creased the number of female scientists in the short term, they do not change circumstances and achieve gender balance in the long term. Third, the Max Planck Society had to recognize that affirmative action was no longer on the cards—neither for female scientists, nor for the institutes. There was a decrease in demand for programs that were exclusively avail- able to female scientists. Max Planck Management therefore commissioned external researchers to conduct two studies. The aim of the first study was to internationally benchmark the portfolio of Max Planck gender equality measures. Further- more, it explored the question of what tools the “big players” in interna- tional research had already implemented.2 The second project investigated the gender equality status quo at Max Planck by means of a survey that was conducted among junior researchers, the results of which indicated a greater need for action to achieve equal opportunities between men and women.3 Though starting from two completely different approaches, the results of both studies suggested the same—namely, a change of course for the 2 Dethloff, Nina (2015). Chancengleichheit in der Max-PIanck-Gesellschaft. Vergleich mit ausgewählten internationalen Forschungseinrichtungen. Internal report commissioned by the Max Planck Society. 3 Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (Martina Schraudner et al.) 2014. Chancengleichheit und Nachwuchsförderung in der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. Ergebnisse quantitativer und qualitativer Befragungen unter Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und Nachwuch- swissenschaftlern. More than one thousand Max Planck junior scientists participat- ed in an online survey. The investigation was supplemented by interviews with a number of Max Planck directors and scientists who had left the Max Planck Soci- ety. 8 https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748924869, am 01.10.2021, 11:01:50 Open Access - http://www.nomos-elibrary.de/agb PREFACE: Gender-Sensitive Research at the Max Planck Society Max Planck gender equality strategy whereby the Max Planck Society should focus less on the individual, and more on the cultural characteris- tics of an organization. The findings revealed that the scientific communi- ty still displays gender bias when it comes to recruitment processes and performance evaluation, which disadvantage female scientists. Once more, the findings draw our attention to the fact that a sustainable gender bal- ance at all scientific career levels will not be achieved as long as society and decision makers consider women less fit for science than men. In order to overcome this issue, both researchers recommended not on- ly supporting
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