Women and Leadership

Last year, the number of female professors in Norway was still below 30%. So far, the University of Oslo has only had one female rector. All over the world, women in academia—and in other sectors—still lose at the expense of men, in many ways that are both visible and invisible.

Organized by MultiLing’s Postdoctoral Fellow Kellie Gonçalves, the two-day round-table aimed to bring together an international group of leading scholars to discuss their current positions and inform younger scholars about the choices, rewards, and challenges that face women in leadership positions.

Topics at the round-table included what we know about women and leadership from research, whether not just men, but also other women, can be a threat to the careers of female academics, how to encourage women to discover and live their ambitions, and what the tasks of a leader are. A full list of talk topics can be found below. At the end of each day, a panel discussion was held, where the speakers and the audience engaged in discussions on what needs to be done to really empower women, and how one can resolve the challenges of balancing leadership positions with partners and families.

The event was funded by the Faculty of Humanities.

Photos from the event

All photos by Nadia Frantsen / UiO.