Gender and Excellence in the Making
(2004) Gender and Excellence in the Making — ISBN: [9289474793], p. 179, published
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- To what extent are the existing procedures, definitions and criteria regarding scientific excellence gender neutral ? To investigate this subject, a workshop entitled 'Minimising gender bias in the definition and measurement of scientific excellence' was jointly organized by the Women and Science Unit of the European Commission's Research DG, the Women and Science Network of the European Commission's Joint research Centre DG, and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute. Based on evidence presented from their own research, participants agreed that scientific excellence is not a "universal fact" but rather a social construction and, as such, it is open to many kinds of biases. Gender dynamics as regards scientific excellence are multifaceted, are often invisible, and apparently related to gender differences in social capital and in the attribution of competence, and to scientific culture in which the 'similar-to-me" process unwittingly seems to favor men scientists. As s the future of European science depends partly on an increased participation of women in the scientific community and on excellent research, it is urgent to reflect further on those unintentional, but still influential, effects of existing definitions and measurements of scientific excellence.
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Gender and Excellence in the Making. (2004). In Gender and Excellence in the Making (p. p. 179). Office for Publications of the European Communities. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/195964