2022
2022.11.24 500 Women Scientists Zurich organized the Really, What now? event https://www.500womenscientistszurich.org/really-what-now to help female Ph.D. candidates to deal with sexism, harassment, and microaggressions. They collected anonymous testimonies on a padlet https://padlet.com/500wszurich/a-collection-of-doctoral-student-stories-iy5fkd8ri226pl and organized a sereis of cartoons illustrating the problems encountered by women in science.
2023
2023.01.25 On the 25th of January, 2023, more than 50 female doctoral students met with Joël Mesot and members of the Executive Board to share testimonies about the challenges they face in their day-to-day activities, and to recommend measures for preventing, monitoring, and holding individuals accountable for inappropriate and disrespectful behavior at ETH. https://www.500womenscientistszurich.org/post/eth-president-meets-doctoral-students
2023.02 Open letter from WiNS and 500 Women Scientists Zurich to ETH Leadership asking for concrete action https://wins.ethz.ch/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Open-Letter-to-ETH-Board_WiNS.pdf and https://www.500womenscientistszurich.org/_files/ugd/c1ab5e_4275cda3955f4a9eabd96f612db8f39f.pdf
2024
2024.08.29 ETH responds to new reports of sexual harassment with “shock” https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/eth-hochschule-ist-schockiert-ueber-vorwuerfe-gegen-professor-849003779879
2024.08.30 Tages Anzeiger releases a podcast about sexual harassment at universities https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/vorwuerfe-an-eth-warum-hochschulen-sich-damit-schwertun-318538866073
Several Reddit threads discuss the problem:
We are Shocked petition and assembly https://www.reddit.com/r/ethz/comments/1gipr70/comment/lvhc6lp/?context=3
ETH ist «schockiert» über Vorwürfe gegen ihren Professor https://www.reddit.com/r/ethz/comments/1f4qtnd/eth_ist_schockiert_%C3%BCber_vorw%C3%BCrfe_gegen_ihren/
#MeeToo https://www.reddit.com/r/ethz/comments/1f834ix/comment/llc6z03/
2024.11 WiNS, Speak Up! in Academia, and 500 Women Scientists react to their shock with the WE are Shocked petition https://www.change.org/p/weareshocked-it-is-our-collective-responsibility-to-hold-eth-z%C3%BCrich-accountable and a Nov 8, 2024 assembly on ETH Zurich’s Polyterrasse to hand over the petition signed by almost 1500 people to ETH Leadership.
At the same time, similar problems were reported at the University of Basel: https://www.srf.ch/sendungen/kassensturz-espresso/kassensturz/universitaet-basel-vom-professor-sexuell-belaestigt-von-der-uni-im-stich-gelassen
Reportage in the NZZ https://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/fehlverhalten-an-hochschulen-eth-zuerich-in-der-kritik-ld.1855846
Tages Anzeiger: https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/eth-zuerich-frauen-fordern-bessere-massnahmen-bei-mobbing-und-belaestigung-391443534646
Nau.ch https://www.nau.ch/news/schweiz/mobbing-junge-wissenschaftlerinnen-setzen-eth-unter-druck-66858988
PS Zeitung https://www.pszeitung.ch/die-eth-fuehrung-muss-verantwortung-uebernehmen/
Limmattaler Zeitung https://www.limmattalerzeitung.ch/limmattal/zuerich/zuerich-mobbing-diskriminierung-sexuelle-belaestigung-wissenschaftlerinnen-wollen-eth-zur-verantwortung-ziehen-ld.2691723