Female-centric projects a turn-off for women
Wild Card's progress: fully-fledged
This Wild Card came from:
European Commission Framework Programme for RTD
The theme/scheme related to this Wild Card:
CAPACITIES: Science and society
The sub-theme that best relates to this Wild Card:
Strengthening potential, broadening horizons
Likelihood timeframe and scenario features :
now-2050
Wild Card's description
Projects set up to help females engage more in science are deemed sexist and patronising and are a reason behind women in the workplace getting less respect from colleagues than their male counterparts ("You only got this job because we 'needed' to have a woman on board"). More women are turning their back on a career in science in protest of such projects.
