Inhalt: The report is a survey-based review (in Norwegian only) of how research institutes, universities and university colleges work to promote gender equality and diversity. It was authored by Sabina Tica and commissioned by the Committee for Gender Balance and Diversity in Research (KIF committee).
The report was presented via webinar. The KIF committee initiated the survey to obtain more data and review the current status of efforts to promote gender balance and diversity in research, for use in its future work.
The KIF committee designed and sent out the survey to a variety of research and higher education institutions. The responses form the empirical basis of the report.
The survey was sent to HR heads at 64 institutions, of whom 48 responded. The sample consists of 18 research institutes, 17 university colleges, 10 universities and 3 unspecified.
Some of the main findings:
The responding institutions dedicated relatively little resources to promoting gender equality and diversity.
The proportion of institutions that had drawn up an institution-wide action plan for gender equality and diversity: universities (80 per cent), university colleges (76.5) and research institutes (38.9).
Gender was the discrimination basis that was included in every institution’s action plan, but disability, ethnicity and sexual harassment were often incorporated as well.
Just 25 per cent of responding institutions with an action plan (7 of 28) had drawn up a department- or faculty-level action plan.
Roughly half of institutions (23 of 45) had a coordinating group for equality and diversity or a gender equality committee.
Expertise in gender equality and diversity is seldom a requirement in management hiring and leadership development at the institutions responding.
Analysis shows that among the respondents, the universities had institutionalized their gender and diversity efforts to a greater extent than the university colleges and research institutes.
No respondents from the universities characterized their efforts on ethnic diversity as ‘good’.
Institutions without an action plan more often assessed their work on ethnic diversity as ‘good’ compared to those with an action plan.
Only 10.2 per cent of respondents felt the pandemic had caused delays in planned efforts to promote gender equality and diversity at their institutions.
Among the institutions responding, the majority felt that international students and researchers were the most vulnerable group during the pandemic, followed by other at-risk groups. Respondents also expressed concern about the pandemic’s impact on women’s working conditions.
Schlagwörter:ethnic minority; ethnische Herkunft; Forschungseinrichtung; Gender Action Plan; Gleichstellungsarbeit; Gleichstellungsbeauftragte; Gleichstellungsplan; Hochschule; Norway; Norwegen; survey
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Hochschulen, Geschlechterverhältnis
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht