National Framework of the Situation of Women and Men in Science:
Analyses and Evaluation

How are policies and funding instruments employed to improve gender equality in higher education?

 

As the basis for the SSA, we looked at the respective national framework women and men and for gender budgeting in science. This included three major aspects which have been analysed in parallel by the Austrian, the German and the Polish team:

 

Part of the German team during a review meeting in Gdansk 2006.
From left to right: Johanna Zebisch, Birgit Erbe, Dr. Andrea Rothe and Michaela Pichlbauer

 

Important topics that the analyses of the national frameworks focused on were the analysis of the career and social situation of women and men in scientific organisations. This includes an analysis of the professional career progress from school leaving qualifications until professorship of women and men, which clearly shows the typical gender pyramid. Further more important features of the income situation for academic women and men are summarised showing that more women than men are employed in lower paid positions, in part-time jobs or in temporary employment. Another part of this chapter shows general features of the social situation of women and men in science. One general feature which we could depict is that less women than men in a higher academic career level have children. A critical consideration of these analyses showed that there is partly an enormous lack of data on this topic.

Another main topic was the legal regulations for equal opportunities for women and men in science with a strong focus on the national laws for universities. This includes regulations on the organisational level as well as the regulations concerning the implementation of gender studies into the scientific activities.

Further more the system of financing of higher education was analysed. A special focus is on how equal opportunity actions or measures are included. Again there are fundamental differences between the three nations but nevertheless general tendencies can be observed in respect to advancing women in science.

The evaluation of the frameworks in Austria, Poland and Germany of the status of equal opportunities in science includes an overview over the main findings in the three nations. The main aim is to summarise the results in reference to the question how we can use the results for our further work on instruments for a gender budgeting in scientific organisations.



 

For further information please contact the coordinator:

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