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With the end of the Elise Richter Fellowship in 2025, the FWF has followed an international trend among scientific funding agencies away from women-specific programs. However, the so-called \u201cleaky pipeline\u201d remains an ongoing issue, indicating that structural inequalities persist. Continued and active dialogue is therefore necessary to identify measures that can foster change in a fair and equitable manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both the newly established ASTRA program and the longer-standing ESPRIT program include women\u2019s quotas. At the same time, such quotas remain a controversial policy instrument and are often met with polarized or critical opinions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this context, ERN chair woman Dr. Karen Kastenhofer<\/a><\/strong> sat down with science communicator Dr. Charlotte Zaij to discuss the necessity of women\u2019s quotas, as well as structural bias and inequality on her podcast Die Wissen schafft<\/a>, episode 23<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With the end of the Elise Richter Fellowship in 2025, the FWF has followed an international trend among scientific funding<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"