Laura Downs’ opening speech at the “9th conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education and Research” in Paris

Prof Laura Downs gave an opening speech at the “9th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education (and Research)”, taking place in Paris on 12-14 September 2016. The conference has been organised by the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), the Université Paris Diderot, the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 and the Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC), with strong support from the French Ministry for National Education, Higher Education and Research, with the support of the GENDER-NET project.

Full text of Prof Downs’s opening speech

Article on News Tank (based on Prof Downs’s opening speech)

Article on Studyrama (quoting Prof Downs’s opening speech)