Quelle: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften; Köln (CEWSpublik, 27), 2023. 116 S
Inhalt: Die Veröffentlichung präsentiert einige zentrale Ergebnisse aus dem BMBF-geförderten Projekt StaRQ (2019-2023). Gegenstand des Projekts war die Untersuchung der Qualitätssicherung von Gleichstellungsmaßnahmen in der Wissenschaft am Beispiel der Handlungsfelder Geschlechtersensibilisierung, Mentoring und aktive Rekrutierung. Zu diesen drei Handlungsfeldern entwickelte das Projektteam jeweils praxisorientierte Handlungsempfehlungen. Im Rahmen der Bestandsaufnahme wurden sowohl eine Theorie- als auch eine Praxisrecherche durchgeführt. Für die Praxisrecherche stand die (teil-)automatisierte Analyse der Webseiten von Hochschulen zu Gleichstellungsmaßnahmen mit Hilfe von methodischen Ansätzen aus dem Bereich Data Mining von Web-Daten im Vordergrund (Web-Crawl). Darüber hinaus wurden Gleichstellungsakteur*innen an Hochschulen im Rahmen eines Online-Surveys zu Strukturen und Standards für die Entwicklung und Überprüfung von Maßnahmen befragt.
Quelle: Gend Work Organ (Gender, Work and Organization), (2023)
Inhalt: In response to persistent systemic gendered and racial exclusions in the sciences, unconscious or implicit bias training is now widely established as an organizational intervention in Higher Education (HE). Recent systematic reviews have considered the efficacy of unconscious bias training (UBT) but not the wider characteristics and effects of the interventions themselves. Guided by feminist scholarship in critical psychology and post-structuralist discourse theory, this article critically examines UBT across STEMM and in HE institutions with a discursive analysis of published studies. Drawn from systematic searches in 4 databases, we identify three types of UBT reported in 22 studies with considerable variation in intervention types, target groups, and evaluation methods. Guided by limited cognitive problematizations of unconscious bias as a problem located inside individual minds, interventions follow established patterns in neoliberal governmentality and make available specific feeling rules and subject positions. These current Equality, Diversity & Inclusion practices present a new technology of power through which organizations may regulate affect and behavior but leave structural inequalities and barriers to inclusion intact.
Qualitätssicherung von Gleichstellungsmaßnahmen in der Wissenschaft: Ergebnisse aus dem Projekt StaRQ - Journal Netzwerk Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung NRW
Inhalt: Der vorliegende Beitrag fokussiert auf zentrale Ergebnisse aus dem BMBF-geförderten Projekt StaRQ (2019-2023) und zeigt Perspektiven sowie ausgewählte Erkenntnisse zum Handlungsfeld Geschlechtersensibilisierung auf.
Support on the way to the top? The effect of organisational equal opportunities measures on women’s promotion prospects
Autor/in:
Wanger, Susanne
Quelle: IAB-Discussion Paper (IAB-Discussion Paper: Beiträge zum wissenschaftlichen Dialog aus dem Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung), 13 (2022)
Inhalt: Even though women have been able to increase their participation in management positions to a small extent in recent years, they are still significantly underrepresented in management positions. Organisational measures to promote gender equality and work-life balance are seen as an option to reduce inequalities between men and women. However, there are relatively few firms that have formalised organisational gender equality policies. Against this background, I examine whether organisational measures may increase women's career opportunities or promote the assumption of management positions on a part-time basis. This is investigated using a German Linked-Employer-Employee dataset (LIAB) from 2012 to 2016 and logistic panel regression models. The results show that the targeted promotion of women in particular improves their chances of promotion. However, this is not the case for mothers and their chances of achieving a part-time management position: these are lower when targeted promotion of women is practised in a firm. Measures to improve reconciliation, such as firm support for childcare or for employees with dependents in need of care, have a positive effect on advancement to management positions. The effect of family-friendly working conditions in a firm is heterogeneous: while women have lower chances of promotion, their chances of obtaining a management position with reduced working hours are higher. In contrast, a firm's membership in a family-friendly network has a negative effect on the career and promotion opportunities of women.
Inhalt: The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The under-representation of women in research and innovation has been documented as a global phenomenon and is particularly heightened on decision-making boards and in leadership positions. Presenting a reflexive approach to gender equality for research organisations developed within the TARGET project, funded by the European Commission, the authors describe the experiences of the project's implementation in seven Gender Equality Innovating Institutions in the Mediterranean basin - including research performing organisations, research funding organisations and a network of universities. The TARGET approach goes beyond the formal adoption of a gender equality policy by emphasising an iterative and reflexive process towards equality at the institutional level as well as the establishment of a community of practice for gender equality within the institution. The approach is based on the assumption that actual change is the result of increased institutional willingness and capacity to identify, reflect on and address gender bias in a sustained way. Starting point and anchor of the process is a tailored gender equality plan for each institution. A specific characteristic of TARGET is the fact that implementing institutions are located in countries which have been characterised as relatively 'inactive' in developing gender equality policies in science and research. Therefore, internal and external communication about the relevance of gender equality in science and research forms an important element of a reflexive gender equality policy in contexts which are characterised by resistances, anti-genderism and traditional gender roles. This book will therefore be essential reading for higher education leaders and managers, and staff at all levels committed to achieving gender equity in higher education. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
Schlagwörter:europäischer Forschungsraum; european research area; Forschungseinrichtung; gender equality; gender equality measures; gender equality plan; gender equality policy; gender monitoring; Geschlechtergleichstellung; Gleichstellungsmaßnahmen; Gleichstellungsplan; Gleichstellungspolitik; higher education; Hochschule; Organisational Change; Organisationsentwicklung; Organisationswandel; research funding organisation; research organization; research performing organisation; Southeast Europe; structural change; Strukturreform; Südosteuropa; Transformation; transformative change
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Fördermaßnahmen, Frauen- und Gleichstellungsbeauftragte, Geschlechterverhältnis, Gleichstellungspolitik
Quelle: Science (New York, N.Y.), 377 (2022) 6614, S 1492–1495
Inhalt: Funding agencies have ample room to improve their policies.
National research agencies are responsible for promoting excellent research that benefits all of society (1). Integrating sex, gender, and diversity analysis (SG&DA) into the design of research, where relevant, can improve research methodology, enhance excellence in science, and make research more responsive to social needs (2). National funding agencies—encouraged by scientists and social movements—have thus begun to implement policies to integrate sex, gender, and, more recently, diversity analysis into the grant proposal process, where these factors have been shown to play a role. We develop a five-part analytical framework for implementing and evaluating SG&DA policies, and use it to evaluate the quality of SG&DA policies for 22 major national funding agencies across six continents. By collecting emerging global practices for policy implementation, we seek to improve understanding of these policies and practices in efforts to enhance international collaborations and research excellence.
Schlagwörter:Forschungsförderung; gender analysis; research funding organisation
From Theory to Practice and Back: How the Concept of Implicit Bias was Implemented in Academe, and What this Means for Gender Theories of Organizational Change
Inhalt: Implicit bias is one of the most successful cases in recent memory of an academic concept being translated into practice. Its use in the National Science Foundation ADVANCE program—which seeks to promote gender equality in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) careers through institutional transformation—has raised fundamental questions about organizational change. How do advocates translate theories into practice? What makes some concepts more tractable than others? What happens to theories through this translation process? We explore these questions using the ADVANCE program as a case study. Using an inductive, theory-building approach and combination of computational and qualitative methods, we investigate how the concept of implicit bias was translated into practice through the ADVANCE program and identify five key features that made implicit bias useful as a change framework in the academic STEM setting. We find that the concept of implicit bias works programmatically because it is (1) demonstrable, (2) relatable, (3) versatile, (4) actionable, and (5) impartial. While enabling the concept’s diffusion, these characteristics also limit its scope. We reflect on implications for gender theories of organizational change and for practitioners.
Gender equality in research funding : A study of 11 European Countries, Israel, and Canada - Deliverable 6.3
Autor/in:
Hermansson, Kenth; Jacobsson, Carl; Österberg, Richard
Quelle: GENDER-NET Plus; , 2021.
Inhalt: This report examines the gender equality situation in European research funding, with the Canadian situation as a perspective. In-depth studies of the 13 GENDER-NET Plus countries are complemented by the analysis of aggregated data from the Gender Gap Index, and, for the European countries, data from Eurostat and She Figures. The European Commission report The Gender Challenge in Research Funding from 2009 serves as a base line for the analysis.