Gender discrimination, poor work-life balance, few career role models: these are all problems that women in particular face in academia and which result in the proportion of women decreasing as their academic career progresses. While the proportion of women among students at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics at the University of Passau in 2020 was 43% among students and 47% among doctoral students, it was only 23% among professors. In order to promote equality in science, the Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics has an Representative for Gender Equality in Science and the Arts. In the episode "#119 How to Gleichstellung", Sophie Ringler, doctoral student at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics, talks to the representatives Katharina-Maria Wagner, Laura Kochendörfer, Johanna Zimmermann and Christina Petrik about what equality actually means. They will also talk about the problems and obstacles that women in particular face in their academic careers (starting with their studies) and what the four of them are doing in their voluntary work at the faculty to promote equality.
Information on the representatives of the university and all faculties: https://www.uni-passau.de/en/womens-representatives
Contact for information, advice or acute help: fakultaetsfrauenbeauftragte-wiwi@uni-passau.de
Further contact points for specific topics (e.g. family service, psychological-psychotherapeutic counseling center): https://www.uni-passau.de/studium/service-und-beratung/