CAREER PATTERNS OF MEN AND WOMEN IN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT‐CONDITIONS AND PERSPECTIVES: FRAMEWORK AND DISCUSSION POINTS

The purpose of this article is to introduce the conference, the topics to be discussed, and to lay down its parameters. In general, the proceedings fall under four principal rubrics concerned with the consequences for sexual equality of the democratization of higher education, the role of positive discrimination programmes, the legal and professional status of researchers, and strategies for the integration of gender equality issues into R&D.