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UCL Gender Equality Event What made the difference? 18 March 2008

UCL Gender Equality Event What made the difference? 18 March 2008. Hazel Genn. What made the difference?. Personal qualities and abilities Intellectual interest and motivation External factors. Early literary interest!. Personal qualities and abilities. Achievement orientated

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UCL Gender Equality Event What made the difference? 18 March 2008

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  1. UCL Gender Equality EventWhat made the difference?18 March 2008 Hazel Genn

  2. What made the difference? • Personal qualities and abilities • Intellectual interest and motivation • External factors Early literary interest!

  3. Personal qualities and abilities • Achievement orientated • Objective focus (ability to sink ego and stay focused) • Hard-working • Perfectionist • Control freak? • Sense of humour Why am I the only person focusing on the task in hand??

  4. Keen interest in healthy living during teenage years

  5. Career Path Social Science Degree 1. Research Assistant Cambridge 2. Research Officer Oxford [Two children] Part-time Law Degree 3. Law Lecturer/Reader/Professor QM 4. Professor of Socio-Legal Studies UCL • Policy advice and public appointments

  6. Career Lift-Off? • Doing law as a quantitative social scientist • Interdisciplinary; scarce skills set • Law + social science research capacity I could teach land law and SPSS

  7. Interventions and obstacles? • Key interventions? • No formal mentors but one or two key people encouraging and making opportunities • Obstacles? • Male dominated and conservative world; need to work hard and determinedly to establish credibility • Need to gain respect and authority through competence and mastery of field AND through listening to others I may be smiling but don’t take me for a pushover

  8. A single thing made the most difference? • No single thing • Motivation • Inner drive for excellence • Hard, focused working • Developing • Networking skills • Presentational skills • Important in influencing people • A supportive and interested husband • My son teaching me about google images

  9. Closing thought…. Take what you do very seriously, but don’t take yourself too seriously

  10. And know what’s important to you

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