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Experiencing equal opportunities
Studying chemistry, starting a family, or both? Really want to assert yourself as a female chemist in the world of men? Accept a lower salary than your male colleagues? A job in the library?
These are all questions that have been on the minds of GDCh members for some time now. The GDCh has been explicitly committed to equal opportunities in chemistry for 25 years. It is celebrating this anniversary in 2025 with various activities. These include: issue no. 5, 2025, of Nachrichten aus der Chemie, the interview series "Kind und Career" by the JCF and the GDCh anniversary event "25 years of commitment to equal opportunities in chemistry" on 1 Dec 2025 at the Deutsches Museum in Munich.
We at SEC are also making a contribution: we are collecting reports, stories, anecdotes, pictures and contemporary documents on studying chemistry and choosing a career in the 1950s to 1980s. The contributions received so far are impressive. All contributions were published on 1 Dec 25 as the brochure "Erlebte Chancengleichheit im Spiegel der Zeit"
Reading these reports has inspired you? Then get started and tell us your own story! How did you experience it when more and more women entered chemistry lecture theatres? What was it like to be the first woman in the working group, or to suddenly have a female fellow student as a man? What about equal opportunities back then? Was it openly discussed? Were barriers put up? Who studied under the first female professor? Were there situations that you would judge more critically from today's perspective or that make you smile today? Did you even find each other for life or did lasting friendships develop? - and much more. We also want to pay special attention to couples to find out how they managed work and family back then. We hope to receive many inspiring contributions here, as this challenge is still relevant today.
To help you get started against the horror of the blank page, we have put together a suggested outline "Structure of an article 'Chemists' stories". Barbara Pohl will be happy to receive your contribution.
