PUSh - Award of the Academic Equal Opportunity Officer for the Outstanding Achievements of Female Students

For some, going to university is a natural step after leaving school, for others it is a risk accompanied by uncertainty and sometimes self-doubt. Financial insecurity, a lack of role models, uncertain career prospects. The list of obstacles to studying is long and intersectional. What's more - regardless of these factors:  Female* high school graduates are generally less likely to choose to study than male* high school graduates, despite having better grades (source: Social Science Research Centre Berlin, retrieval date: April 22, 2024). In addition, science loses women at every career stage on the way from A-levels to professorships. We want to change that.

'PUSh' ('Preis der Universitätsgleichstellungsbeauftragten für Studentinnen mit hervorragenden Leistungen'), the Academic Equal Opportunity Officer's prize for female students with outstanding achievements, honours female graduates who study against all odds and prove their outstanding achievements with a Master's or admission thesis graded "very good".

With this award, the Equal Opportunity Officers not only want to emphasise the high academic potential of women. In particular, they want to give female students a "PUSh" for their further academic careers, whose prerequisites were more difficult than those of others.

The prize, which was awarded for the first time in 2007 for outstanding final theses, is intended to specifically promote young female academics and act as an incentive to pursue an academic career.

Please Note: Applications and theses are accepted in both English and German.