Latest Developments Towards
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Discover how the WiNS politics team continuously works to uphold a constructive dialogue with the ETH board: urging them review and reevaluate existing measures while suggesting innovative strategies to foster a genuinely inclusive environment at ETH Zurich, ensuring equal opportunities across all departments and institutes.

In collaboration with Speak Up! and 500 WS, we’ve prepared a manifesto responding to the recent Tagesanzeiger article ("ETH is shocked").

500WS collects anonymous stories from female doctoral students who have experienced sexism, harassment, and microaggressions in the workplace. Share your experience on the platform 100% anonymously. The stories are presented to the ETH Executive Board.

Check out the latest event of the 500 Women Scientists Zürich Pod "Really? What Now?" Series. On the 25th of January, 2023, more than 50 female doctoral students met with Prof. Joël Mesot and members of the Executive Board to share testimonies about the challenges they face in their day-to-day activities, and to recommend measures for preventing, monitoring, and holding individuals accountable for inappropriate and disrespectful behavior at ETH.

Martin R. Holst. (2020, November 9). How to handle abuse of power by PhD supervisors: A workshop on early career researcher's needs. Early Career Researcher (ECR) Conference 2020: "(In)credible Research" - for Credibility, Integrity and Reproducibility of Research (ECR Conference 2020), Berlin.

Business Ethics that lifts you up! - Dr. Palazzo gave an implicit bias workshop in 2022!

"Die ETH und ihre Frauen: warum sich der Alltag im Labor nicht an die Diversity-Pläne der Schulleitung hält."

The younger generation fighting sexual harassment at Swiss universities: Public awareness campaigns have not stemmed sexual harassment at Swiss universities. A new generation of women is taking matters into their own hands. SWI swissinfo.ch met three of them.

Towards An 'Equal Opportunities' Hiring Process

Faculty Recruitment Resources – Workshops for faculty and administrators involved in hiring.

We highly recommend to check out the "Diversity" Section curated by the STRIDE committee at the University of Michigan!

"A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It?"

"How some men are challenging gender inequity in the lab."

"Science diversified: The men who say no to manels."

"Simpson’s Paradox in the interpretation of “leaky pipeline” data. "

If you feel like sharing your most inspiring or thought-provoking source, please contact us via wins(at)ethz.ch