Happy International Women’s day! 65% of the researchers in XPrag.de are women!

Did you know that XPrag.de is the first priority program in the history of the German Research Foundation in which the majority of principal investigators are women? Among the 16 participating scientific projects only 4 are headed exclusively by men whereas 5 projects are headed exclusively by women and 7 are headed by a mixed team of female and male principal investigators. Overall, 52% of principal investigators are women.

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In XPrag.de there are 8 female post-docs and 2 male post-doc researchers. Approximately the same ratio holds for PhD students: 10 female and 2 male students are doing research for their doctoral thesis in an XPrag.de project.

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Adding up all researchers involved in XPrag.de, 65% are women!
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