SIGIS

Project duration: 01.11.2024 – 30.06.2026

Project lead: Andrea Löther

Project team: Christine Abraham, Anke Lipinsky, Nina Steinweg, Lena Weber

Project description:

The English translation is based on an automated generated and manually checked translation.

Although the participation of women in academia has increased in recent years, this has not occurred at the expected rate, particularly regarding professorships, and not equally in all academic disciplines. The proportion of women also proves to be an insufficient sole indicator for determining success in gender equality. In addition to structural data on gender relations, normative attitudes and the lived working culture are essential indicators to assess progress toward gender equality. Gender inequalities are also interwoven with other dimensions of inequality, such as social status and migration experience.

Against this background, this study examines the structural and cultural-normative organizational and working conditions at universities for the intersectional gender inequalities they contain. Based on these findings, approaches for change can be developed for a more gender-equitable work and organizational culture.

The study design includes the following features:

• Interconnection of the level of the individual researchers with the organizational level of the universities; the individual data are evaluated in the respective university context.
• Linking quantitative and qualitative data (“mixed methods”) with an online survey on the perception and evaluation of working conditions as well as work and organizational culture, statistical data on the employment situation, analysis of website information on university gender equality policy and expert interviews
• Conducting a joint study at eight universities with a primarily natural science and technology orientation
• Evaluation in the overall sample and for individual universities
• Participatory approach by feeding back the study with relevant actors at the university.