Welcome to the website of RISE: Researchers in Science for Equality. RISE is the network for female beta scientists of Leiden University, Faculty of Science. The mission of RISE is to build an inspiring work environment for female scientists, stimulate…
On the 15th of November, women work for free on the European average! The reason for this is the gender pay gap which causes women to work roughly 1.5 months more to earn the same money as men in comparable…
Joke Bouwstra (LACDR) will receive this year’s van Zwanenberg Ereprijs. She did fundamental research on the skin and the transport of drugs through the skin. This is the first time the prize will go to a woman after 59 years.…
Leiden University has started an initiative to supply period products in the SchoolSupply vending machines. In case one needs a sanitary pad or tampon, they can be bought for 50 cents at 12 different facilities. The initiator, E. Picavet aims…
From 1 October. Verberne has been appointed professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) where she worked as group leader of the Text Mining and Retrieval group since 2017. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the field of…
Although inequalities still exist, the EU has made significant progress in gender equality over the last decades. This is the result of Encouraging trends are the higher number of women in the labour market and their progress in securing better…
Nienke van der Marel (Leiden Observatory) has been awarded the New Horizons Prize in physics for her pioneering research on planet formation. This prize is given to young, promising researchers in physics or mathematics. The astronomer and her colleagues found…
