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Women in Global Science: Advancing Careers Through Collaboration
Start Date: 3/8/2018Start Time: 9:30 AM
End Date: 3/8/2018End Time: 11:00 AM

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Co-Sponsored by Institute for Women's Health and Leadership Sex & Gender Research Forum
 
You can watch the live stream of the Colloquium here: http://drexel.edu/soe/resources/event-series/gec/March-13-2018-event/
 
Scientific and engineering research is increasingly global, and international collaboration can be essential to academic success. Yet even as administrators and policymakers extol the benefits of global science, few recognize the diversity of international research collaborations and their participants, or take gendered inequalities into account. In this presentation of her research on women in global science, Dr. Kathrin Zippel considers systematically the challenges and opportunities that the globalization of scientific work brings to U.S. academics, especially for women faculty. Focusing on STEM fields as a case study, this presentation explores how the gendered cultures and structures in academia have contributed to an underrepresentation of women. While some have approached underrepresentation as a national concern with a national solution, Zippel highlights how gender relations are reconfigured in global academia. For U.S. women in particular, international collaboration offers opportunities to step outside of exclusionary networks at home. While not to be mistaken for the panacea to gendered inequalities in academia, Zippel argues that international collaborations can be key to ending the steady attrition of women in STEM fields and in turn help develop a more inclusive academic world.

Kathrin Zippel is Associate Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University. She has published on gender politics in the workplace, public and social policy, social movements, welfare states, and globalization in the United States and Europe. Her book The Politics of Sexual Harassment in the United States, the European Union and Germany (Cambridge University Press) won several awards. Her current research explores gender and global transformations of science and education. Dr. Zippel is a co-chair of the Social Exclusion and Inclusion Seminar at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and was a residential fellow at the Women and Public Policy Program J.F. Kennedy School. She served as co-PI of Northeastern’s National Science Foundation ADVANCE Institutional Transformation grant. She held a Humboldt Research fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich; was a guest at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the WZB Social Science Research Center in Berlin, and the European University Institute in Florence. Dr. Zippel received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was a post-doc at the European Union Center of New York at Columbia University.
 
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Name: Anthony Hopkins
Phone: 215-895-0900
Email: ajh357@drexel.edu
Drexel University School of Education
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Gerri C. Lebow Hall
Grand Hall, Room 220
3220 Market St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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