The FESTA project: doing gender equality work in STEM faculties in Europe
Autor/in:
Salminen-Karlsson, Minna
Quelle: Handbook of Gender and Technology. Eileen M. Trauth (Hrsg.), Jeria L. Quesenberry (Hrsg.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. 2023, S 90–105
Inhalt: This chapter presents the FESTA project, which worked 2011–2016 to advance gender equality in STEM departments in seven European countries. The focus was on improving the working environment of mainly junior researchers with the motto “a better working environment for women is a better working environment for all”. The aim of the chapter is to showcase work on organizational change to advance women’s careers in different environments. The chapter describes the diversity of the European scene when it comes to gender equality in STEM, and particular issues actualized when trying to improve the situation by means of a cross-European project. Four of the FESTA actions are described in detail: 1) collecting and presenting relevant metrics, 2) improving PhD supervision, 3) improving informal decision making and communication to be more transparent and 4) managing resistance. The chapter concludes with the suggestion that the STEM fields may be able to be forerunners in improving gender equality in the academe.
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
To Achieve Gender Equality in Organisations: A Swedish Case on an Important Aspect of Educational Leadership
Autor/in:
Haake, Ulrika
Quelle: Internationalisation of Educational Administration and Leadership Curriculum. Eugenie A. Samier (Hrsg.), Eman S. Elkaleh (Hrsg.), Waheed Hammad (Hrsg.), Emerald Publishing Limited. 2021, S 199–214
Inhalt: Sweden, as a country based on extremely high secular and self-expression values, serve as an example that somewhat differ from other countries internationally, when it comes to educational leadership curriculum. The chapter takes its starting point at the governmental decision for Swedish universities to gender-mainstream their organisations, something that affects the educational leadership curriculum. To be able to discuss this, I present three research studies on gendering leader identity development processes and gender equality strategies in the Swedish higher education setting. In a longitudinal study of the process of leader identity development, the main result was the emergence of a gendering process in the discourse on academic leadership. At the end of the leadership assignment period, leader identity was described in differing terms at subject positions held by women and men, respectively. In a separate study on female heads of research-heavy departments, three conflicting subject positions appeared that showed different strategies when leaders were of the female sex: (a) a gender-conscious position, (b) a gender-neutral or gender-unconscious position and (c) a position of sex discrimination experience. In a third, large national study, based on horizontal analysis of gender equality in Swedish higher education institutions (HEIs), was found that universities internally consist of different worlds when it comes to the possibility of making academic careers and in how male- and female-dominated academic disciplines explain gender inequality and strategies to handle this. Results from these studies will be discussed, in light of the striving for (gender) equal and just organisations, since gender equality is an important aspect of Swedish educational leadership curriculum.
Schlagwörter:Curriculum; gender equality policy; Gender Mainstreaming; gendering; Gleichstellungspolitik; head of department; higher education; identity; leadership; Sweden
Organisationsentwicklung und Genderperspektive(n) : Plädoyer für eine kompetenzorientierte Verknüpfung
Autor/in:
Hörmann, Martina
Quelle: Kooperative Organisations- und Professionsentwicklung in Hochschule und Sozialwesen? Gleichstellungspolitik und Professionalisierung in geteilter Verantwortung. Andreas Polutta (Hrsg.), Wiesbaden: Springer VS. 2020, S 77–91
Inhalt: Der Beitrag skizziert eine mögliche Verknüpfung der Themenbereiche Gender/Gleichstellung und Organisationsentwicklung Am Beispiel eines Entwicklungsprozesses in einer Volkshochschule werden einige der relevanten Aspekte dieser Themenbereiche veranschaulicht. Die Chancen einer Verknüpfung sind aus Sicht der Autorin groß, sodass sie dafür plädiert dieses Potenzial zu nutzen. So könnten genderorientierte Veränderungsprozesse von Erfahrungen aus der (systemischen) Organisationsentwicklung (OE) profitieren, wohingegen eine genderorientierte OE ihren Blick weiten könnte für Themen des 21. Jahrhunderts.
Quelle: Handbook on Science and Public Policy. Dagmar Simon (Hrsg.), Stefan Kuhlmann (Hrsg.), Julia Stamm (Hrsg.), Weert Canzler (Hrsg.), Edward Elgar Publishing. 2019, S 284–315
Inhalt: Gender inequalities in science persist across the EU member states with the underrepresentation of women in the top echelons of scientific hierarchies. The EU policies in the past decades tried to address this issue with a mix of policies following social and economic rationales. The chapter identifies three policy challenges that still persist today: the underrepresentation of women in top positions in science and in decision-making bodies, gender pay gap as well as the absence of gender in research content. The analysis shows that the complexities of actors, the importance of institutional entrepreneurs , networks and advocacy groups have led to a more non-linear policy learning from ‘fixing the women’ to ‘fixing the institutions’ approaches. The chapter points out how the economic rationale has increasingly taken over the social equality rationale regarding gender in research policies. The increased rationalization of research organizations allows to implement gender policies and thus - to increase their legitimacy, while a lot of implementation stays at the ideational level.
Schlagwörter:EU; EU-Politik; Forschungspolitik; Führungsposition; Gender in der Forschung; Geschlechterungleichheit; Gleichstellungspolitik; Hochschulleitung; internationaler Vergleich; Legitimation; Organisationswandel; Unterrepräsentanz; Wissenschaft
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Gleichstellungspolitik
Austerity Politics and Feminist Resistance in Finland: From Established Women’s Organizations to New Feminist Initiatives
Autor/in:
Elomäki, Anna; Kantola, Johanna
Quelle: Gender and the Economic Crisis. Politics, Institutions and Intersectionality. Johanna Kantola (Hrsg.), Emanuela Lombardo (Hrsg.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2017, S 231–255
Inhalt: The authors ask whether austerity and the political climate shaped by neoliberalism, conservatism and racism constitute a turning point for Finnish feminism.
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Gleichstellungspolitik
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerksbeitrag
Chancengleichheit, Translation und Interpretative Repertoires : Die Übersetzung des Bundesprogramms Chancengleichheit an einer Schweizer Universität
Autor/in:
Offenberger, Ursula; Nentwich, Julia C.
Quelle: Neo-Institutionalismus - Revisited: Bilanz und Weiterentwicklungen aus Sicht der Geschlechterforschung. Maria Funder (Hrsg.). Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag. 2017, S 307-337
Inhalt: Der Beitrag entwickelt auf der Basis einer Fallstudie zu universitärer Gleichstellungsarbeit ein Modell für das Verständnis von Organisationsveränderung als Übersetzungsprozess. Unter Rückgriff auf Konzepte aus dem skandinavischen Institutionalismus und der Diskurspsychologie wird organisationaler Wandel als das Prozessieren verschiedener Übersetzungszyklen gefasst, deren Reichweite durch die Wirkmächtigkeit vergeschlechtlichter Institutionen wie der Zweigeschlechtlichkeit (Heterosexualität), dem Berufsmenschentum und der Sphärentrennung begrenzt wird. Wir fassen diese Institutionen, insbesondere ihre Wirkweisen im organisationalen Veränderungsprozess, mit dem englischen Sprichwort des „Elephant in the Room“. Organisationaler Gleichstellungsarbeit kommt dementsprechend die Aufgabe zu, diesen sprichwörtlichen Elefanten in Bewegung zu versetzen, eben eine Art „Tanzkurs für Elefanten im Raum“ zu entwickeln. Gleichstellungsarbeit ist somit immer in einem Paradox des „erfolgreichen Scheiterns“ gefangen, jedoch nicht ausschliesslich zum Scheitern verurteilt.
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Gleichstellungspolitik
Dokumenttyp:Sammelwerksbeitrag
From women through gender to unconscious bias: changing terminology about gender equality in the EU
Autor/in:
Pető, Andrea
Quelle: The Future of the European Union. Feminist Perspectives from East-Central Europe. Eszter Kováts (Hrsg.). Budapest: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. 2017, S 21–26
Inhalt: This paper, also based on the author's personal experiences, aims to illustrate the major shift in terminology from women’s equal opportunities through gender equality to unconscious bias, and asks the question how this process fits into the general process of redefining gender equality in the European Union.
