Gender

Held once a year, Girls’ Day is intended to motivate girls and women to pursue technical and scientific professions. The CLICCS School of integrated Climate and Earth Systeme Sciences  (SICCS) participates annually in the event.

How do you become a climate researcher?

The event is jointly organized by the Cluster of Excellence CLICCS and the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability CEN at Universität Hamburg.

At CEN, researchers from such disparate disciplines as e.g. meteorology and peace research are working to find out how we humans can adapt to climate change and what our future will look like.

On Girls’ Day, a member of Universität Hamburg’s Cluster of Excellence CLICCS will tell you who is actually conducting climate research. Afterwards, an expert from the Cluster will share some insights into her work and tell you what she actually does as a climate researcher.

Finally, a tour of the wind tunnel at Universität Hamburg’s Department of Earth Sciences awaits you. There you will have the opportunity to observe and feel wind currents firsthand.

Together with Pro Exzellenzia, a program that has been successfully preparing women for management positions for over ten years, we offer a range of workshops especially for women.

Excellent science and gender equality
Science thrives on diversity, exchange, and changing perspectives. At the same time, structural inequalities and barriers persist in the academic world. The underrepresentation of women in professorships and leadership positions has long been an issue at universities. This is currently being discussed under the hashtags #ichbinhanna and #ichbinreyhan, also in the context of multiple discrimination.

Good negotiations are half the battle – negotiation strategies in the academic world
There are numerous negotiation situations in an academic career – whether as a research assistant, doctoral candidate, in the post-doc phase, when acquiring third-party funding or when taking up a professorship. But these situations aren’t always as clear-cut as when negotiating for a professorship. So what are the concrete negotiation situations? How much leeway is there? And what tips and tricks can help you go into negotiations confidently and well prepared? We’ve invited experts who will give you the answers to these questions.

Coach me! Career booster for female scientists
Career paths in science are associated with special challenges. Female scientists are in a constant state of tension between independent research and dependent temporary employment, publication and performance pressure, the acquisition of third-party funding and teaching obligations. For many young female scientists, talking about the challenges and problems of everyday professional life still carries a stigma. Yet coaching can be an important tool for reflecting on everyday work issues and questions of professional positioning, finding one's own role in the science system, sharpening one's own profile, and pursuing one's own career path in a goal-oriented manner.

Movie PICTURE A SCIENTIST

Picture a Scientist chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. Biologist Nancy Hopkins, chemist Raychelle Burks, and geologist Jane Willenbring lead viewers on a journey deep into their own experiences in the sciences, ranging from brutal harassment to years of subtle slights. Along the way, from cramped laboratories to spectacular field stations, we encounter scientific luminaries - including social scientists, neuroscientists, and psychologists - who provide new perspectives on how to make science itself more diverse, equitable, and open to all.

Movie THE LEADERSHIP
The world is crying out for a new model of leadership, but what is it? One woman
thinks she has the answer. Australian CEO and leadership expert, Fabian Dattner, leads an international group of 76 female scientists on an Antarctic voyage designed to transform them "into the sort of leaders they want to be."Her hope is that once these women are primed to lead in science, they will be able to make meaningful change around the world. But on board, as the women's deeply personal stories of workplace gender biases and more are revealed, Dattner's own leadership style and philosophy is severely tested. Set against the planet’s last untouched wilderness, THE LEADERSHIP delivers an unexpected and original reflection on what it takes to be a good leader, while unearthing the systemic obstacles to women’s advancement in science and beyond.

Movie Ant/Arctic Women
For centuries, numerous cultures held onto the assumption that polar research and exploration were male-only domains. Anyone interested in the history of our planet knows the names of the great explorers – Amundsen, Shackleton, or Scott. Among Polish polar explorers it’s Arctowski, Dobrowolski, and Siedlecki that became famous. Meanwhile, women were also engaged in polar research; they were pioneers in many fields and thus hold an important place in the story. In recent years, women have been at the forefront of the world’s leading polar research organizations; they run stations and led many field teams and major international expeditions.
The film “Ant/Arctic Women” shows untold stories of Polish female pioneers of polar research in the Arctic and Antarctic. Among them are expedition leaders and researchers with great achievements who have flourished in a male-dominated environment.