Tagged: International Women's Day

International Women’s Day, 'a celebration and call to action'

29 / 02 / 2024

Art exhibitions, a photo exposition, a film lecture and a march. Those activities will take place over the course of next week, to celebrate International Women’s Day at the UT on the 8th of March.

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Internationale Vrouwendag is zowel 'een viering en oproep tot actie'

29 / 02 / 2024

Kunsttentoonstellingen, een foto-expositie, een filmlezing en een mars. Die activiteiten vinden in de loop van volgende week plaats, ter gelegenheid van Internationale Vrouwendag op de UT op 8 maart.

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‘Pijnlijk hè, zo’n mammografie’

09 / 03 / 2023

Vier Internationale Vrouwendag samen met ons!, was de oproep van het TechMed Centre. En daar werd gisteren door veel vrouwen, van binnen én buiten de UT, gehoor aan gegeven. Ze kregen een informatief programma voorgeschoteld, met onderwerpen die iedere bezoeker herkende. ‘Pijnlijk hè, die compressie van een mammografie!’

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07 / 03 / 2023

International Women’s Day: ‘It might not solve the issue, but it sure helps’

With March being ‘Women’s Month’ and International Women’s Day being celebrated on March 8th, the topic of feminism arises. With this in mind, five UT students share their feelings about this special day. ‘We are still living in a patriarchal society.’

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27 / 02 / 2023

Four days of celebrating International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day at the UT will be celebrated with a four-day programme from 7th until 10th of March. The planned series of events include a march, a networking fair and presentations about women’s health.

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International Women’s Day 2022

Blank canvas

In honour of the International Women’s Day 2022 on 8 March, Vrijhof Culture organized a get-together dedicated to ‘breaking the bias’. Participants literally started with a blank canvas, jointly filling it up with one work of art celebrating women. The event also served as an occasion to reopen an exhibit of ‘Women in Mathematics’ and ‘forgotten’ female inventors in Vrijhof on campus.

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International Women’s Day

‘We need more women who aren’t presented as princesses’

Would you boldly go where nobody like you has gone before? ‘That is the power of role models: they inspire you and show you what is possible. Without their example, you’ll stay in your own bubble.’ Today, on the International Women’s Day, seven women from the UT share stories about their personal role models and what (female) representation means to them.

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08 / 03 / 2018

Female Entrepreneurs of the UT

In celebration of International Women’s Day, U-Today spoke with three women from the UT who have started their own companies. What drove them to take the risk of becoming an entrepreneur and what did their road to success look like?

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08 / 03 / 2018

‘Work-life balance is not a personal choice’

Female Faculty Network Twente is organizing a conference on ‘Academic career and work-life balance’ in Vrijhof today, on International Women's Day. One of the event’s keynote speakers is Professor Yvonne Benschop, who believes that the issue of work-life balance shouldn’t be presented as a personal choice.