Helga Ebeling Helga Ebeling is head of the department -- Women in Education and Research -- in the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and is responsible for implementing gender mainstreaming in the policy of the ministry. She studied education, sociology, and psychology at Bielefeld University and since then has gained respect in her field of merit. She has been a member of the EU expert group - Women in Science - since 1998, and the chair of the working group on the same subject of the Bund-Länder Commission for Educational Planning and Research Promotion since 1991. Ms. Ebeling worked with the federal Ministry of Education and Science, Division for Media Education and New Technologies from 1986-1989 and from 1980-1986 she accomplished research on projects at Bielefeld University concerning in-service training for teachers and the establishment of a special research programe. Her publications are on issues of equality of opportunity in science and research, schools, vocational education and training, lifelong-learning, and international developments.