«Status of women faculty» at ETH Zurich

An analysis of available quantitative data to investigate inequities in terms of resources provided to carry out research, remuneration, teaching loads and more.

A qualitative study (interviews) to investigate those inequities that can be more challenging to detect, for example, marginalisation, isolation resulting from small numbers of women faculty, gender harassment and greater family responsibilities. To reduce bias and ensure anonymity, an external vendor will conduct and analyse the interviews. Furthermore, the interviews will:

• Interview a sub-sample of male professors built with a pair-matching process.
• Include several female professors who left ETH to find out was about their experiences.
• Look at intersectionality in as far as possible and reasonable (e.g., gender & family status & nationality).
• Aim to understand what obstacles female professors face working in Switzerland as well as at ETH, specifically.
• Aim to understand what obstacles female professors face in career progression and how they manage to overcome/work around them.

Members of the commission:

• Prof. Dr. Gudela Grote 
• Prof. Dr. Niao He
• Prof. Dr. Judit Szulágyi 
• Prof. Dr. Eleni Chatzi
• Prof. Dr. Manu Kapur 
• Prof. Dr. Renato Renner 
• Prof. Dr. Nicolas Gruber 
  

Support of the commission:

The commission is supported by the Vice-Presidency for Personnel Development and Leadership and several technical administrative staff members from different departments:

• Dr. Julia Dannath
• Dr. Sara van Leeuwen 
• Dr. Munjong Kolss
• Daniel Halter
• Stephan Andreas Zimmermann Wegmann