The traveling exhibition RETHINKING PHYSICS opened at the Technische Sammlungen Dresden on International Women's Day on March 8. The exhibition was conceived for the United Nations International Year of Quantum Science and Technology by the Exzellenzcluster ct.qmat – Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter at the Universities of Würzburg and Dresden.

Prof. Dr. Monique Ritter (Lanshut University of Applied Sciences, former TRAWOS member) and Bernadette Rohlf (research assistant at TRAWOS) were invited to talk about their research. After a welcome by Roland Schwarz (Director of TSD) and Matthias Vojta (spokesperson for the Exzellenzclusters ct.qmat), the lecture „Geschlechtergleichstellung im Wissenschaftsbetrieb? - Un/Gleichzeitigkeiten im Umgang mit sexistischen Praktiken in den MINT-Fächern“ (Gender equality in academia? - Synchronies and asynchronies in dealing with sexist practices in STEM subjects) addressed the experiences and explanatory patterns of women in academic STEM fields. In a professional context, women are challenged by sexist paternalism and organizationally and emotionally by the unequal distribution of care work and the incompatibility of a scientific career with self-determined family planning. When they talk about their experiences, however, they emphasize individual scope for action and their own strength and performance, which makes it difficult to problematize the underlying structures. During the subsequent tour of the exhibition, the topics of the lecture were further discussed and experiences were exchanged.