Inhalt: This Austrian Country Note is one of seven country notes written as part of the H2020 project EFFORTI
(Evaluation Framework for Promoting Gender Equality in R&I, No 710470) to analyse the context in
which gender equality measures in RTDI take place. EFFORTI seeks to analyse and model the influence
of measures to promote gender equality on research and innovation outputs and on establishing more
responsible and responsive RTDI (research, technology, development, innovation) systems.
The main objective of this report is to understand the influence of wider contextual framework
conditions in Austria on structuring the situation of women in RTDI, their career opportunities and,
subsequently, on the effects of gender equality measures in RTDI. Based on the objectives of the
EFFORTI project we have considered following contextual framework conditions as relevant:
· the structure and performance of the research and innovation system,
· gender equality policies in the labour market and welfare policies related to reproductive work
and child‐care,
· the governance and existing policies of gender equality in RTDI, and
· the evaluation culture and policy especially in the field of gender equality in RTDI.
In a concluding chapter the findings of each country note are summarized. This provides a better
understanding of how gender equality policies in RTDI are related to the innovation system on the one
hand and to broader policies of gender equality and welfare regimes on the other hand.
With this report we acknowledge the need to analyse the structure and governance of innovation
systems and the societal environments in terms of the opportunities and constraints offered by various
gender, welfare and innovation regimes for women's employment. This task is particularly important
as programmes and initiatives to promote gender equality in RTDI are located at the interface of
different policy environments of the innovation system and gender equality as well as welfare policies.
For each EFFORTI country (Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Spain, Sweden) such a report
was compiled because the selected programmes and initiatives that will be analysed as case studies,
are embedded in different contexts and interact differently with their environment. The national
country notes will provide a better understanding of these contexts.
Subsequently, the seven national country notes will be compared with each other in a comparative
report. The comparative report will focus on the interfaces between the three domains: innovation
system, welfare and gender equality policy initiatives, as well as of evaluation cultures, and how they
are reflected in gender equality programmes in RTDI. A special emphasis will be put on how gender
equality policies are embedded in and aligned with national innovation policies.
Schlagwörter:Gleichstellung in der EU; Österreich; Policy Analysis; Politikfeldanalyse
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht