Development of Instruments for Gender Budgeting at Universities

Our SSA "Gender budgeting as an instrument for managing scientific organisations to promote equal opportunities for women and men" aims at the development instruments and measures as well as indicators for the implementation of Gender Budgeting as an important part of budget planning in science - with the example of universities.

This report is a cooperative work of the team members from all three cooperating countries. After the introduction, we start in chapter 2 with a theoretical discussion of some major factors influencing the actual development at and within universities. These are the global competition and the economisation of science, the corresponding effects on the institutional set-up and New Public Management instruments at universities. We will look at the organisational culture(s) at universities and give an overview over the state of discussion on the difficult question on excellence in science. Each of the topics will be presented with a simultaneous consideration of the consequences for equal opportunities in science and esp. at universities, its chances and risks.

In the following we focus on the development of gender sensitive objectives based on general considerations and will follow up on the question of gender equality objectives at universities. In addition, we will give some short examples how equal opportunity aspects can be integrated in agreements on objectives.

In chapter 4 we develop indicators for objectives for gender equality on different levels. This includes process indicators as well as social environment indicators and target achievement indicators. These are based on our own findings and on results from experiences made in the development of gender indicators. At this point we are also taking into account the international experiences and already available considerations by the EU-Commission on implementing Gender Mainstreaming into policies.

In chapter 5 we will assess strategies, instruments and measures which can be used to achieve an increase of gender equality at universities. These cover measures for sensitisation, awareness rising and the attainment of gender competence, classical equal opportunity instruments, the gender impact assessment (GIA) and its adaptation for budgeting in science, special gender equality instruments in the field of budgeting and last but not least instruments and measures for monitoring and gender controlling.

In chapter 6 we will illustrate our findings with the presentation of best practice examples as to Gender Mainstreaming at universities.

In chapter 7 we will outline possible starting points for support actions at each of the three universities. The question will be how a single university can handle or change the situation. This will at the same time be the starting point for trans-national learning and the transfer of experiences and know-how of the project members to their universities. The actual support of the universities with specific and adjusted activities will be outlined in the workpackage to follow.



 

 

For further information please contact the coordinator:

Frauenakademie München e.V. (FAM)
Baaderstraße 3
80469 München
Tel: ++49 (0) 89-7211881
Fax: ++ 49 (0) 89-7213830
info@frauenakademie.de www.frauenakademie.de

Dr. Andrea Rothe
Tel: ++49 (0) 170 - 89 13 624
info@andrea-rothe.de