I express my gratitude to the Office for Gender Equality of the University of Bern for encouraging us to develop our Gender Lecture Series and for funding activities that led to this manuscript. Special thanks go to Karin Beyeler who has always been very helpful. Thanks are also due to the wti team who provided me with the perfect environment for implementing our gender activities over the past three years. In particular, I am grateful to Sophia Thompson, Rebecca Gilgen, Francesco De Fino, and Pablo Rahul Das for always being supportive and a willing source of help. I also wish to thank the participants at our Gender Lectures who, through their engagement and participation in fruitful debates, have played an influential part in shaping this book project.
I gratefully acknowledge the grant received from the Swiss National Science Foundation for the project “Gender Equality in the Mirror: Clothing the Invisibility of Women’s Participation at International Level” (No. 100011_200462/1 -