I am a founding member of the Did this really happen?! project that promotes gender equality in academia and fights sexism in working environments. Since early 2018 we show micro-agressions and sexist behavior through comic strips and release them online through our webpage. The comics are hand-drawn by amazing artist and data scientist Alice Adenis [Accessed 02/02/2020] and are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Feel free to use the comics in your presentations, but don't forget to give us and Alice credit.

Having role models and safe networking opportunities is crucial in an academic career. However, lack of female role models persist in the STEM fields. That is why I joined 500 Women Scientists Zurich pod and we started a series called "Breaking Gender Barriers" that is kindly supported by the ETH Zurich. We organise short presentations followed by round table discussions with inspirational female role models and leaders. We target female early career researchers to encourage them, inspire, and motivate to pursue their dream careers. You can watch some presentations here.

Geosciences together with larger STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) communities are highly burdened with striking imbalance between female and male researchers especially at high level positions. Indeed, for example in Earth and Planetary Sciences women represent only around 37% of the scientific community. Moreover, different expressions of gender biases tend to preserve these male dominated environments and thwart achieving gender balanced work places. Below, I present several local actions that aim to improve gender diversity in science and promote gender equality. The contribution was presented during the EGU 2020 share online event.