Inhalt: Since decades, and worldwide, scholars have been examining phenomena of gender inequality
in academia.1 Scholars have also been investigating gender-equality policies instigated to
address these phenomena of gender inequality in academia.2 Within European academia, for
instance, women represent the majority of students, but men still dominate the higher ranks
of academic staff. The underrepresentation of women among the higher ranks of academic
staff spills over into an underrepresentation of women in academic decision-making boards
and commissions. As professors comprise the majority within such bodies due to their central
positions (in education and research) in academic organizations, the presence of women in
academic decision-making bodies depends to a certain extent on their academic rank. And as
women are underrepresented in these academic positions, they are also underrepresented in
the academic decision-making bodies. Within the EU-28 in 2014, only 28% of the members and
22% of the leaders of national decision-making boards such as research councils or foundations
were women. In more than a quarter of the 29 countries, however, women accounted for at
least 40% of board members. The numbers among leadership positions are also improving,
though still lower. Up from 15.5% in the EU-27 in 2010, 20% of heads of higher education
organizations were women in the EU-28 in 2014, with women making up only 22% of board
chair persons (European Commission, 2015).
(EGERA-Project)
Schlagwörter:ERA; EU-Projekt; Gremien; Quote; Wirkungsanalyse
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Monographie