International vergleichende Forschung über Formen geschlechtsbezogener Gewalt in Wissenschaftsorganisationen
Autor/in:
Lipinsky, Anke; Schredl, Claudia
Quelle: Sexualisierte Belästigung, Diskriminierung und Gewalt im Hochschulkontext. Sabine Blackmore (Hrsg.), Heike Pantelmann (Hrsg.), Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien. 2023, S 43–54
Inhalt: Zahlreiche empirische Prävalenzstudien befassen sich mit dem Vorkommen geschlechtsbezogener Gewalt in der Wissenschaft. Die theoretischen Ansätze und Konzepte, welche die Studiendesigns und Operationalisierung der empirischen Messinstrumente bestimmen, stellen sich in einer Überblicksstudie im direkten Vergleich als heterogen dar. Die Heterogenität betrifft die Operationalisierung von Geschlechterkonzepten genauso wie die Auswahl der behandelten Gewaltformen. Durch die Entwicklung eines gemeinsamen Bezugsrahmens aus drei Dimensionen (Kontext des Geschehens, Geschlecht, Gewalt) lassen sich Unterschiede herausstellen, die ausschlaggebend für das spätere Verständnis der jeweiligen Prävalenzdaten sind. Ausgangspunkt unserer Analyse ist ein Mapping von Umfragestudien und Messinstrumenten aus dem Themenbereich geschlechtsbezogener Gewalt unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von sexualisierter Belästigung und Gewalt. Unsere Auswertung von neun Umfragestudien stellt Erhebungsinstrumente in den Mittelpunkt, die für die empirische Forschung im Hochschul- und Wissenschaftskontext entwickelt und dort zur Datenerhebung eingesetzt wurden. Die Befunde unseres Mappings weisen auf konzeptionelle Entscheidungen bei der Erhebung von sexueller Belästigung und Übergriffen hin, die unter Berücksichtigung des jeweiligen Forschungskontexts und der späteren Nutzungsabsicht der Ergebnisse getroffen wurden, einen direkten Vergleich der Prävalenzniveaus jedoch erschweren. Die hier angewendete Methode des selektiven Vergleichs weist auf Grenzen und Möglichkeiten der kulturübergreifenden Interpretation von Prävalenzdaten hin, selbst wenn die Umfragen alle aus dem Hochschul- und Wissenschaftskontext stammen.
Schlagwörter:comparative; gender based violence; harassment; survey; vergleichende Forschung
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Quelle: Overcoming the Challenge of Structural. Angela Wroblewski, Rachel Palmén (Hrsg.), Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited. 2022, S 143–157
Inhalt: This chapter aims to present the context, the approach and the pedagogical tools deployed at École Centrale Marseille (ECM) to promote gender equality in engineering education. The ECM has put several mechanisms in place such as challenging traditional gender stereotypes, social representation of the engineering profession and facing the realities of a professional world that is overwhelmingly masculine, including awareness of the glass ceiling effect on access to positions of responsibility and prevention of sexual harassment. The ECM model combines multidisciplinary studies with a professional grounding with the aim of educating students to be able to transform society. In 1997, the ECM founded the Mediterranean Network of Engineering Schools with the main goal of fostering sustainable development in the Mediterranean basin. The ECM has been part of the community of practice on gender equality initiated by Mediterranean Network of Engineering Schools through its participation in the H2020 TARGET project on gender equality in research and higher education.
Quelle: Overcoming the Challenge of Structural Change in Research Organisations. Angela Wroblewski (Hrsg.), Rachel Palmén (Hrsg.), Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited. 2022, S 161–179
Inhalt: Universities are large, complex and highly hierarchical organisations with deeply engrained gendered values, norms and practices. This chapter reflects on the experiences of two universities in initiating structural change towards gender equality as supported by the TARGET project. A common aspect thereby is the lack of a national policy in higher education and research providing specific support for implementing gender equality policies. The process of audit, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the first gender equality plan (GEP) in each of these universities was conceived as a first step in a long journey, providing a framework for engaging different institutional actors and fostering reflexive, evidence-based policy making. The analysis deals with reflexivity and resistance and seeks to draw lessons from bottom-up and top-down experiences of GEP implementation. It is the result of shared reflection between the GEP ‘implementers’ in the two universities and the team who provided support and acted as ‘critical friends’.
Schlagwörter:Communities of Practice; gender equality plan; Gleichstellungsplan; higher education; Hochschule; Marokko; morocco; Reflexivity; serbia
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Gleichstellungspolitik
Quelle: Overcoming the Challenge of Structural Change in Research Organisations. Angela Wroblewski (Hrsg.), Rachel Palmén (Hrsg.), Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited. 2022, S 15–32
Inhalt: Gender equality plans (GEPs) are currently the preferred approach to initiate structural change towards gender equality in research organisations. In order to achieve structural change, GEPs have to be more than just a formally adopted institutional policy. Effective GEPs lead to a transformation of gendered practices and thus to structural change. This chapter presents the innovative approach developed for an H2020 structural change project and its theoretical background. We argue that due to the dual logic, which characterises academic organisations, the organisational logic and the academic logic, change is a complex endeavour. To deal with this complexity, one of the main functions of a GEP is to provide space and initiate reflexivity at an individual as well as at an institutional level. A theory of change approach supports reflexivity in all stages of a GEP as it ensures that basic assumptions of the institutional change process are questioned and reflected on by the different stakeholder groups involved in the implementation.
Schlagwörter:gender equality plan; institutional transformation; Reflexivity; research and innovation; resistance; theory of change
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Gleichstellungspolitik
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerksbeitrag
Relevance of Monitoring for a Reflexive Gender Equality Policy
Autor/in:
Wroblewski, Angela; Leitner, Andrea
Quelle: Overcoming the Challenge of Structural Change in Research Organisations. Angela Wroblewski (Hrsg.), Rachel Palmén (Hrsg.), Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited. 2022, S 33–52
Schlagwörter:gender equality plan; gender indicators; gender monitoring; Gleichstellungsplan; Monitoring; Reflexivity; research funding organisation; research performing organisation
Promoting Gender Studies in Romania : Working in a Difficult Context
Autor/in:
Tăriceanu, Alina
Quelle: Overcoming the Challenge of Structural Change in Research Organisations. Angela Wroblewski (Hrsg.), Rachel Palmén (Hrsg.), Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited. 2022, S 125–141
Inhalt: During the last three decades or so, the introduction of gender studies into higher education in Romania as a field of teaching and research has proved to be a very uneven and sometimes precarious process. The notion of gender has not been properly integrated into scholarly research, and women’s and gender studies have therefore been seen as an appendix to mainstream research in the humanities and the social sciences. This chapter aims at providing a meaningful picture of how gender studies have become part of the higher education system in Romania, what challenges have been met on the way and what future gender studies have in the education landscape. It also provides a comprehensive overview of the significance and importance of the TARGET project for the implementation of the first gender equality plan in the Romanian higher education system.
Schlagwörter:gender equality plan; Gleichstellungsplan; higher education; Hochschule; Lehre; research and innovation; Rumänien; teaching
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerksbeitrag
Relevance of a CoP for a Reflexive Gender Equality Policy : A Structural Change Approach
Autor/in:
Palmén, Rachel; Caprile, Maria
Quelle: Overcoming the Challenge of Structural Change in Research Organisations. Angela Wroblewski (Hrsg.), Rachel Palmén (Hrsg.), Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited. 2022, S 53–69
Inhalt: This chapter discusses the relevance of a community of practice (CoP) for a reflexive gender equality policy and reflects on the different approaches taken within TARGET. It is based on the literature on CoPs and structural change as well as on experiences in transferring this approach to the context of implementing gender equality plans (GEPs) within different types of research organisations. While the notion of the CoP was coined in the 1990s, literature on gender and such communities remained scarce until a recent wealth of research looked at the role played by inter-institutional CoPs in advancing structural change in research organisations. In this chapter, we examine whether and how an institutional CoP approach has been a useful vehicle for gender equality plan development and how the different configurations of internal and external stakeholders within the CoPs have impacted GEP implementation.
Quelle: Overcoming the Challenge of Structural Change in Research Organisations. Angela Wroblewski (Hrsg.), Rachel Palmén (Hrsg.), Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited. 2022, S 91–111
Inhalt: Gender competence as part of engineering education can better prepare men and women to work on sustainable solutions that benefit entire societies. This chapter describes the framework and lessons learned of a community of practice (CoP) for gender equality facilitated by the Mediterranean Engineering Schools Network. Faculty and students from Mediterranean European, North African and Middle Eastern countries came together in this CoP, which was supported by the TARGET project, to develop a practical plan using a reflexive approach. The transfer of knowledge between generations is achieved by using participatory learning processes, facilitating mindful awareness, widening experiences, deepening understandings and building a gender-sensitive mindset. Students embarked on the journey to become change agents. The process led to the consolidation of gender equality knowledge, competence building and the development of change agents for gender equality. This CoP can inspire other institutions to undertake a participatory path towards gender equality – at local, regional, or global level.
Institutional Mechanisms for Combatting Sexual Harassment in Higher Education Institutions : The Case of the University of Belgrade
Autor/in:
Mirazić, Milica; Duhaček, Daša
Quelle: Overcoming the Challenge of Structural Change in Research Organisations. Angela Wroblewski (Hrsg.), Rachel Palmén (Hrsg.), Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited. 2022, S 113–124
Inhalt: As a form of gender-based violence, sexual harassment represents one of the most serious obstacles to gender equality in higher education institutions. A systematic and institutional response is required in order for the problem to be regulated. This chapter provides a short overview of the existing institutional mechanisms adopted – with the support system built within the TARGET project – at the University of Belgrade and its member institutions, as a possible and good practice model of institutional interventions dealing with this issue. With three member faculties already having previously introduced their own rulebooks, the first University of Belgrade Rulebook on the Prevention of and Protection from Sexual Harassment was adopted university-wide in 2021. This document represents an important step forward and a substantial support to all the member institutions in the process of regulating the prevention of and protection from sexual harassment and thus contributes substantially to gender equality at all levels of the institution.
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerksbeitrag
Promoting Structural Change in Small Organisations : Strengths, Resistance and the Quest for Excellence
Autor/in:
Micheli, Barbara de; Vingelli, Giovanna
Quelle: Overcoming the Challenge of Structural Change in Research Organisations. Angela Wroblewski (Hrsg.), Rachel Palmén (Hrsg.), Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited. 2022, S 181–198
Inhalt: Research-funding organisations (RFOs) and research-performing organisations (RPOs) are in a privileged position to significantly reshape the research and innovation landscape – not only by implementing gender equality plans (GEPs) as institutions but also in terms of the relationship and potential impact of these plans on the institutional context in which they are embedded. This paper reflects on the content and methodology of the GEP implementation at two RFOs and one non-university RPOs. Grounded in the knowledge base of each organisation, the analysis provides insights and expert feedback in order to understand to what extent and under which conditions GEPs are a systematic and comprehensive policy in promoting structural change that has a high potential impact on research policy definition and funding. Reviewing the internal assessment phase, the preliminary steps in the design process as well as the implementation and monitoring phase, the analysis detects both the strengths and challenges or resistance connected to external and internal factors as well as the specific strategies that small organisations employ to promote and sustain organisational and cultural change.
Schlagwörter:Communities of Practice; Cyprus; gender equality plan; Gleichstellungsplan; Greece; Griechenland; institutional change; institutioneller Wandel; Italien; Italy; research and innovation; research funding organisation; research performing organisation; Zypern