The situation of women and men at the University of Augsburg, Gdansk and the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration

The objective of this workpackage is to show the situation of women and men at the three cooperating universities (Augsburg, Gdansk and Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration). We will first analyse the situation of all women and men at these universities considering all groups of employees (non-scientific as well as scientific staff and students assistants). Further more the situation of the students is presented according to their sex and in respect to their distribution among the different departments. A focus is also on the change in distribution over time and according to their level within the scientific career, clearly showing a leaky pipeline for women the higher the positions get (this phenomenon is also called "gender pyramid"). As far as data was available we also tried to describe the income situation considering criteria like sex and the hierarchic level. Further more an evaluation is made as to the use of the present data available to draw a sex disaggregated picture of the whole situation at each of the three universities. Further more an evaluation was the available data was made as to its sex disaggregating and its use to describe the situation of women and men at each of the three universities.

In the second part of the analysis we explore the situation in each of the three universities in respect to gender equality, orientation towards equal opportunities for women and men and the progress which may have been made in regard to the implementation of strategies for gender equality and/or gender mainstreaming. This chapter clearly shows big differences between the three countries resp. the three universities as the status and climate towards gender equality is very diverse in the three countries. At the University of Augsburg e.g. the process of gender mainstreaming is going on since quite a few years while at the University of Gdansk the discussion of the topic has only just begun.

Another topic of the analysis focuses on the question of the distribution and allocation of budget within the universities. This includes a description of the legal framework along which the universities have to act as well as inner-university guidelines for the allocation of budgets. Further more the important stakeholders (persons and boards) of the budgeting planning process and their power and decision making positions are analysed. This is of course always embedded in the national framework which is obligatory for each university, (this information was researched in the analysis of the national frameworks, Erbe 2006, Klatzer/Mayrhofer/Neumayr 2006, Lapniewska/Tarasiewicz 2006; WP 4, see above).

Additionally the over all budget of the universities and its distribution as to revenues and expenditures is described. As far as data was available we distinguish the monetary amounts according to departments and analysed the mechanisms and guidelines according to which the allocation of budgets takes place. Further more we were partially able to distinguish the resources of the revenues of the budget of the universities (e.g. public money, third party funding or tuition fess).

With the evaluation of the actual situation and the analysis of the budgeting process at the three universities University of Gdansk in Poland (UG), the University of Augsburg in Germany and the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration in Austria (WU) we compared the situations of women and men in scientific organisations in a tri-national framework and took a closer look at the interdependencies of equal opportunities and budgeting.



 

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Dr. Andrea Rothe
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