Service Centre Equal Opportunities Do you need advice? The Service Centre Equal Opportunities offers support. Topics Life-Domain-Balance (reconciliation of career and…); individual support with your career path beyond gender- stereotyping, breach of integrity, discrimination, harassment, sexual harassment Specific Questions Our academic career is equally important to both of us. How can we coordinate our scheduled stay abroad, both our jobs as well as childcare? My work-life-balance is out of order. How can I manage to achieve a better balance between my academic work and my other needs? After giving birth to my child I am confronted with stereotypical role model at my institute. How can I still pursue my career goals beyond these common clichés? According to my Professor I have the potential for a professorial chair. All other colleagues from the Institute who got pushed forward by him, progressed quick and far. Leaving aside that I really could pursue a professorship, do I really want this? While my colleagues at the institute get assigned highly responsible task, I constantly get less rewarding tasks despite having the same qualification. I feel being treated unfairly. The meeting with my supervisor was strange. All of a sudden his hand touched my arm and then for a moment touched my knee. I am totally confused. What happened just then? The tone of my supervisor’s voice is getting increasingly spiteful. I feel like I am always in the line of fire. I do not understand what is wrong and feel bad. Is it only me? At the beginning my colleague’s sayings were somehow funny. It has become very annoying by now and I feel discriminated by the others. I am really scared to get excluded from the group and be seen as a killjoy if I say something about it. Target Audience Ph.D. students, Postdocs, Assistant Professors