CLIMATE AND EARTH
SYSTEM SCIENCES
Photo: UHH/Denstorf
29 March 2023
Photo: theleadershipfilm.org
After the first successful round, we are happy to continue the Movie Screening Series "Women in science – from inequalities to leadership?".
The second part of this series takes place on March 29, at 16:00 @ BU53, room 022/023, followed by an informal discussion from 17:45 in a relaxed atmosphere with snacks and drinks.
Here is a brief insight into the film "The Leadership" that we will be watching on that day:
THE LEADERSHIP is something of an onion. It’s an ambitious project headed by coach Fabian Dattner, to bring together 70 of the world’s leading female scientists to strengthen their leadership skills to put toward the enormous problem of saving the earth from climate
change. She believes that female leadership is crucial in the fight, and hopes to foster this by taking a total of 1000 women through her course as part of an immersive 20 day trip to Antarctica to see climate change’s effects first hand. It’s also a study in the challenges that scientists face in an uncertain, cutthroat job based on short term contracts, ultra-competitiveness and uncertainty, and the specific
biological and cultural pressures that being female in that world layers on top. A final twist ……