Female East German natural scientists in the transformation process from 1980-2000Career opportunities of physicists in science and research

在柏林墙倒塌和德国统一25周年之际，这项委托进行的研究工作应该探讨的问题是，随着政治制度的转变，新德意志联邦共和国的女科学家的状况沿着发生了什么变化，这些科学家是如何经历或感知这种转变的？必须问的一个问题是，为什么女物理学家在高等教育中的研究和教学中没有或仅仅是没有充分建立平等的机会，尽管在德国统一过程中有所改善，新的德国联邦州的科学环境与旧的德国联邦州保持一致？简而言之，一个中心论点是：尽管在调查期间对“妇女机会平等”问题有所了解，但德国的转型和统一进程对新州女科学家和女物理学家在科学和研究方面的职业状况产生了相当不利的影响，它导致了联邦德国德国社会政治现代化的全面进一步延迟。

On the occasion of 25th anniversary of the fall of the wall an the German Reunification, this commissioned research undertaking should examine the question how the situation of female scientists in the new German Laender has changed along with the transformation of the political system and how these scientists experienced or perceived this transformation? One question that must be asked is why was the equal opportunity for female physicists in research and teaching in higher education not or only insufficiently established despite the improvement during the German Reunification process and the alignment of the science environment in the new German Laender to the old German Laender? In a nutshell, one central thesis is: Despite the knowledge about the problem of "equal opportunity for woman" during the investigative period, the transformation and reunification process in Germany had a rather negativ impact on the career situation of female scientists and female physicists in science and research in the new Laender and in the end, it led to an overall further delay of the sociopolitical modernization of the Federal Republic of Germany.