On Wednesday the 21st of September Dilma Rousseff, the President of Brazil has become the first ever woman to open the General Assembly’s annual general debate. The Brazilian President told world leaders that women are now occupying the place they deserve in the world.

  A new study presented in the Washington Post points out that a meta-analysis (an integration of a large number of studies addressing the same question) carried out by researchers from Northwestern University shows that today's leadership continues to be viewed as culturally masculine. The project “Are Leader Stereotypes Masc

The European Gender Summit is held under the auspices of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, and is supported by the European Commission through the Science and Society Programme (FP7). The event is supported by a range of high-level partners and patrons from different sectors and backgrounds (see our list of Patrons and Partners). The European Gender Summit is organised jointly by genSET - gender in science, the European Science Foundation and the European Cooperation in Science and Technology.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos Vice President Viviane Reding, EU Justice Commissioner  spoke about the need to increase worldwide the percentage of women in leadership position in company boards to 30% by 2015 and 40% by 2020. The figure is currently 22%.

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genSET is an innovative project aiming to improve the excellence of European science through inclusion of the gender dimension in research and science knowledge making. genSET is holding three workshops in 2011 which will help your organisation develop institutional capacity for action on a specific area. The workshops will facilitate the development of practical gender mainstreaming plans that can be accommodated within the available functional mechanisms and structural dynamics of your organisation by providing you with access to gender expertise.