KIT Career ServiceStudentsFemale Career
Briefly explained
Why Female Career is important for you
We want to support female students and graduates at KIT in actively shaping their professional development, believing in themselves, and building a strong network. We offer space for personal exchange, inspiration, and further development.
As a career service, we address all questions relating to job applications and careers in order to support students in successfully starting their careers. In this context, it is important to us to address the specific challenges faced by women and encourage them to contribute their perspectives.

Note: For KIT, women are more diverse than a biological gender. We understand women to be anyone who identifies as female.

Our events

KIT Female Power Hour

Our KIT female power hour exchange groups offer female KIT students a safe space to share their experiences and thoughts. In regular meetings, about three times a year, we discuss topics related to the life of women in studies, science and work. The exchange promotes the coming together of different perspectives and makes it possible to listen to and encourage each other.
Especially in science and STEM, women are often confronted with structural inequalities. Stereotypes, unconscious prejudices and existing power imbalances can influence their careers. In our discussion groups, we can openly address these issues, develop strategies together and learn from each other.
How do we deal with the challenges of the academic world? How can we support each other? How can we support each other when it comes to careers, career entry and work-life balance? It's not just about individual strength, but also about collective awareness. Our exchange rounds provide space for networking in solidarity, self-empowerment and empowerment. The meetings are interactive and open - each participant can contribute as much as she wants. A thematic input is intended to stimulate exchange.

Next dates:
  • 12th March 2026
    KIT Female Power Hour: Floweredition
Register here for 12th March
 
  • 1st July 2026
    KIT Female Power Hour: Book Club in the Park
Register here for 1st July
 
  • 24th September 2026
    KIT Female Power Hour: Rethink Nature
Register here for 24th September

Meet & Match - Female Career

Don't worry – we've captured all the best moments for you. There were 16 companies, exciting discussions, and lots of female power.

Review and photos available here.

And best of all:
This won't be the last Meet & Match event. We're already convinced that there will be another one in 2026. Stay tuned.

Comments from our participants
Inspiring experiences
“I only planned to stay for a little while, but I was so captivated by the discussion that I stayed until the end. The panellists were inspiring: authentic, courageous mothers who spoke from the heart with great energy. I was particularly impressed by the appreciative tone — not women against men, but genuine cooperation.”

Adisa on the Alumnae in the Spotlight event: Female Role Models for Leadership on 21 May 2025.

“It was the best break from everyday life I could have imagined. Those 90 minutes with this energising group, full of empowerment, motivation, understanding and heart, gave me so much joy and confidence.”

Emma on the Female Power Hour event: Clear the stage for improv on 6 November 2025

Find your appointment
Consultations/coaching
The Career Service supports all KIT students in successfully starting their careers and positioning themselves successfully in professional life in the long term. Equal opportunities are important to us.
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Our programs and networks

Leadership Talent Academy
Value-oriented personality and career development for your path to leadership
Click here for the LTA

Women@KIT Linkedin group
This group is there to promote the exchange of all KIT women on topics related to work, career and female empowerment in the digital world and beyond.
Are you a student, alumna, scientist or administrative employee? We invite you to network with other women here.
Click here for the LinkedIn group

KIT Programs & Networks

Network of female engineers in the Faculty of Chemical Engineering
To enable women within the faculty, regardless of where they are in their academic career, to engage in both professional and social exchange.

Click here for the website
Mathematicians' lunch
An informal exchange in mathematics (students, staff and professors) - just give them the opportunity to get into conversation.

Click here for the website
Women in IT - WIT
Women with WITs* report on their very own experiences with computer science at various stages of their studies, lives and careers.

Click here for the website

MINToring – Mentoring program for female master students
Industry or research? What do you actually do during a doctorate? - Mentors provide insights and help with the decision.
To the IAI Website

WPF-KIT Women Professors Forum
A network of women professors at KIT.
To the WPF Website

WiKIT-Network for female scientists at KIT
Monthly network meetings, e-mail distribution list and mutual job introductions.
To the WIKIT Website

KHYS - Special programs for women
Special programs for young female scientists
To the KHYS Website

KIT pages on Equal Opportunities and Diversity

Advice on discrimination, sexualized violence and harassment, stalking, balancing work, studies and family, and much more.
Information on studying with children, studying with disabilities, applying for a name change, first-time academics, help with sexualized violence and mental health
With all the important information on balancing studies, career and family