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The European conferences on gender equality in higher education have since 1998 brought regularly together hundreds of gender equality practitioners, researchers and administrators from Europe and beyond. The conferences provide an international forum to discuss and exchange information and experiences and share research results on the changes and challenges related to gender in academia, gender equality promotion and interventions in higher education and research institutions.This year the conference will take place in Vienna and it will host two panels on the themes of work-life articulation in academia.1) Family and CareerChair: Marita HaasRapporteur: Martina Hartner-TiefenthalerIsabella Buber-Ennser: Childbearing ideals and intentions of female researchersSusann Kunadt: Family Friendliness at Higher Education Institutions. About the effectiveness of strategies and measures for the reconciliation of science and careMarta Vohlídalová: Once children come, it puts sand in the wheels of career opportunitiesFlorian Holzinger: Fathers on parental leave in greedy organizations2) Explorations &#38; Interventions in Work-Life-Balance and Academic Working CulturesChair: Barbara HeyRapporteur: Evangeline Adler-KlausnerT. Paulitz, S. Kink, B. Prietl: How to tackle methodologically implicit gender norms in academic working cultures? Challenges for Gender Studies in Higher EducationR. Ortlieb, S. Weiss: Work-life-Balance and career aspirations of junior faculty membersT. Paulitz, M. Goisauf, S. Zapusek: Gendered relations of work and life in academia: Findings from a qualitative study at the University of GrazB. Hey: Reflecting a research-based intervention in academic work-life-balanceFor more information, please visit  the conference's website  https://gender2014.conf.tuwien.ac.at/home/