Dr. Lena Eckert und Dr. Anne Freese | icp – institute for critique and practice gGmbH; Netzwerk Mutterschaft und Wissenschaft 

The pilot study "Care und Unfair" examines disadvantages for parents and caregiving relatives in the German external funding sector, a field that has a significant impact on the academic career but on which, to date, there is hardly any research. At the same time, diversity is considered a basic requirement for good science.  

The authors want to make discriminatory tendencies visible and to draw attention to the urgent need to counter the risk of losing an entire generation of scientists, in particular due to the so-called "corona gap". 

The lecture is part of the RMU online talk series "Familie im Fokus – Vereinbarkeit in der Forschung“, in which the reconcilability of family life, studies and work is addressed from a scientific perspective. Over the course of the semester, researchers from the Rhine-Main Universities present their research results on various aspects of reconcilability.