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Action plans from gender and leadership workshop and suggestions on how to proceed within the AutoCure consortium on gender and leadership

* Always include gender issues as part of the annual AutoCure meeting.
* Make it mandatory for groupleaders in the AutoCure consortium to participate in programs on gender, leadership and conflict handling.
* Hold this work-shop annually and encourage PI’s to participate.
* Change PI’s in AutoCure from men to women where possible and appropriate.
* Collect data by assigning a behaviour scientist who can make surveys, make interviews and initiate research projects. From there, we can identify objectives for the continuous work on leadership with a gender perspective.
* Educate colleagues on the results from above suggested work.
* Discussions on leadership and gender at Eular.
* Focus more on men + women instead of men versus women.
* Stress the fact that teams with both genders benefits the leadership.
* Make academic careers more attractive for women.
* Exert influence over Eular and respective institutions – initiate a dialogue.
* Measure accomplishments – announce and advertise.
* Mentorship programs (one on one) to have both gender and scientific dialogues.
* Gather information on men versus women in:
- rheuma faculties within the consortium,
- AutoCure scientists,
- first and last authors,
- chairs and meeting speakers