CAREER COLUMN
09 September 2020

How the pandemic could choke gender equity for female researchers in Denmark

An advocacy group calls for funders and institutions to launch flexible grant and fellowship schemes and equity programmes.

Mette Bendixen⁰ &
Vanessa Jane Hall¹

Mette Bendixen
1. Mette Bendixen is a physical geographer at the University of Copenhagen and at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
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1. Vanessa Jane Hall is a pathobiologist at the University of Copenhagen.
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Denmark has lagged behind many European Union countries on achieving gender balance in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM). Female researchers in the country account for 33% of associate professor positions and 22% of full professorships. They also secure fewer large grants and feature less frequently as first or last authors in high-impact journals than do their male counterparts.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02527-7

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