In the past few months, the INSPIRE project team at CEWS worked on the following topics and made the following progress.
Activities:
November/December 2023
- Pilot study: In order to test the web scraping method for the Europe-wide monitoring of gender equality plans, CEWS is conducting a pilot study.
- The sample comprises selected institutions in Germany, Greece, Estonia and Ireland.
- CEWS explores how machine learning algorithms can be used to detect gender equality plans automatically to measure their prevalence.
- Further steps will test how the gender equality plans can be analysed more profoundly using text analysis methods (characteristics, implementation and impact indicators).
- Survey: CEWS is currently finalizing the questionnaire for the web survey.
October 2023
- The INSPIRE conference "Inclusive Gender Equality in Research & Innovation: Creating Knowledge for Systematic and Sustainable Structural Chance" took place in Budapest on October 5. It was aimed at experts, practitioners and researchers who are responsible for the development of gender equality plans.
May/June 2023
- CEWS conducted four online focus groups to develop the indicators for the web survey and web scraping. A total of 28 participants from the four European regions were involved.
- CEWS identified four important indicators for a Europe-wide monitoring of gender equality plans: Prevalence, Characteristics, Implementation and Impact.
Materials:
A review of the literature on the evaluation and monitoring of gender equality plans (GEP) at scientific institutions has been completed.
Löther, Andrea/ Karataş, Mazlum/ Weber, Lena (2023): D2.1f Literature Review Data Monitoring. https://zenodo.org/records/10033668
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