scholarly journals Institutional Change for Gender Equality in Research Lesson Learned from the Field

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Sangiuliano ◽  
Agostino Cortesi
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Communication Research ◽  
Female Representation ◽  
Gender Balance ◽  
Hr Management ◽  
Research Organizations ◽  
Gender Policies ◽  
Institutional Communication ◽  
And Gender

Gender balance in research organizations is considered as a key step for ensuring research excellence and quality and inclusive-sustainable innovation. Still, in spite of an increasing number of HE and research institutions committed to make science more equal and some positive trends in figures on Gender equality in STEM research, it still appears to be difficult to prioritize gender equality. This is particularly true for disciplines such as ICT/IST where female representation at all levels is among the lowest ones among STEM topics and where a gender sensitive approach to ICT design and programming is far from being understood in its implications among computer and information systems scientist. H2020 (PGERI and SWAFS programmes in particular), promoted the concept of institutional change for gender equality, insisting on the need for merging change management and gender policies. The volume is focusing on a presentation and reflexive review of results and tools from the H2020 EQUAL-IST project to discuss opportunities to innovate and transform HR management and Institutional communication, research design, teaching & students services, via gender equality, and how such innovations could be multiplied and sustained with a focus on ICT and IST research organizations. The volume is complemented by contributions from other projects on institutional change in research.

scholarly journals Quotas and Gender Competence: Independent or Complementary Approaches to Gender Equality?

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Wroblewski
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Female Representation ◽  
Paradoxical Situation ◽  
Short Period ◽  
And Gender

Austrian gender equality policy in higher education is characterized by the successful implementation of a comprehensive set of gender equality policies and persistent gender imbalances. After the introduction of a legal quota for university bodies, for instance, female representation in decision-making bodies increased significantly within a short period of time. However, this did not lead to a cultural change or the abolishment of barriers to women’s careers. Research has attributed this paradoxical situation to a lack of reflexivity because the current gender equality policies do not force institutions or individuals to challenge traditional practices, which are perceived to be merit-based and therefore gender neutral. To overcome this paradox, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science, and Research launched a policy process aimed at strengthening gender competence in all higher education processes—management, administration, teaching, and research. This paper provides a critical discussion of the Austrian quota regulation and its implementation. It also introduces the concept of gender competence and outlines the underlying assumptions as to why the new policy is expected to contribute to change. Following a critical reflection on these assumptions, the paper also discusses how existing steering instruments have to be adapted to support individual and institutional reflexivity.

Gender Policies and Gender Inequalities in Health in Europe

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laia Palència ◽  
Deborah De Moortel ◽  
Lucía Artazcoz ◽  
María Salvador-Piedrafita ◽  
Vanessa Puig-Barrachina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Inequalities In Health ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Current Economic Crisis ◽  
Gender Regimes ◽  
Gender Policies ◽  
And Gender

The aim of this article is to explain the results of the SOPHIE project regarding the effect of gender policies on gender inequalities in health in Europe. We start with the results of a systematic review on how gender regimes and gender equality policies at the country level impact women’s health and gender inequalities in health. Then, we report on three empirical analyses on the relationship between different family policy models existing in Europe and gender inequalities in health. Finally we present four case studies on specific examples of gender policies or determinants of gender inequalities in health. The results show that policies that support women’s participation in the labor force and decrease their burden of care, such as public services and support for families and entitlements for fathers, are related to lower levels of gender inequality in terms of health. In addition, public services and benefits for disabled and dependent people can reduce the burden placed on family caregivers and hence improve their health. In the context of the current economic crisis, gender equality policies should be maintained or improved.

scholarly journals Vold, kjærlighet og makt i likestillingslandet

2020 ◽  
pp. 31-46
Author(s):  
Margunn Bjørnholt
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Gender Balance ◽  
Shared Parenting ◽  
Gendered Patterns ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gendered Expectations

This chapter presents findings from a study that explored intimate partner violence (IPV) and its relation to gender, gender equality and power, drawing on qualitative interviews with 28 women and 9 men. The chapter argues that being exposed to violence from an intimate partner in a presumed gender equal country represents a particular minority position, and for whom the Norwegian gender equal legislation and discourse may become part of the problem: Love and gender equality could be used as rhetorical resources for the perpetrator, and gendered patterns of care may contribute to the gendered character of IPV. Furthermore, the language of love and the ideals of trust and transparency in a relationship could be used and abused by the perpetrator to legitimize coercive control. Gender equality and the ideal of gender balance could also be used as rhetorical resources by the abuser, including the sharing of housework, political engagement against violence as well as shared parenting after divorce. This shows that egalitarian attitudes and gender balance in the division of labour in the home are not incompatible with the exercise of violence. Further, gendered expectations and feelings of care and love formed a gendered entanglement that made it difficult to leave. Fear of the perpetrator and concern for children’s safety in the context of the contemporary egalitarian post-separation regime in Norway further added to victims’ ordeals.

scholarly journals Gender-Sensitive Language in German Annual Reports

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Katarina Böttcher ◽  
Kerstin Lopatta
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Market Value ◽  
International Market ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Board Members ◽  
German Language ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Management Positions ◽  
Gender Policies ◽  
And Gender

Gender equality in business has gained worldwide attention recently. This study examines whether firms address female individuals (e.g., in salutations) in annual reports and if so, whether this kind of gender-sensitive language is related to the firms’ market value. The study is based on the German setting, as the German language has separate nouns for female and male individuals that do not exist in other languages (e.g., English, Chinese). Using a sample of HDAX listed firms between 2007 and 2015, we find, surprisingly, that few firms address women throughout their annual reports and the more frequently women are addressed, the lower the firms’ market value. Results remain robust using three different proxies for the firms’ market value. The findings may be interesting for German firms that wish to forge a positive relationship with (female) board members and also male and female investors. The findings are more generally important for the international market and firms in other countries, because giving greater visibility to gender policies and gender equality in business language may help to increase the number of women in higher management positions.

Implementation of Gender Policies by the Private Sector in the UAE: Challenges and Opportunities

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-153
Author(s):  
Mashael Al Fardan ◽  
Belisa Marochi
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
The Public ◽  
Gender Policy ◽  
Gender Balance ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Gender Policies ◽  
The Government

The United Arab Emirates (UAE)’s “Vision 2021” set a deadline for the country to become one of the top 25 countries in the area of gender equality by the end of that year, with the government launching a gender balance program to achieve this goal. However, the private sector faces challenges in the implementation of these national gender policies. Even with country’s multinational entities leading the way for gender equality in the private sector, implementing the new gender policy is challenging. This study demonstrates the ways in which cooperation between private sector entities and the government is often dysfunctional. Testimony from 10 interviews with professionals in UAE-based companies suggests that businesses face problems implementing gender-balancing policies due to a lack of transparency, reporting, and accurate data on gender issues within both the private and the public sectors. The study concludes that businesses require greater guidance and more transparent measures to be able to advance gender equality issues in the UAE.

Women’s Representation in Subnational Governments

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon ◽  
Kendall D. Funk
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Women's Representation ◽  
Gender Balance ◽  
Women’S Representation ◽  
Promote Gender Equality ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Over Time

Despite national gains, women’s representation at the subnational level has not increased much over time. In this chapter, Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon and Kendall D. Funk present and analyze original data on subnational legislatures and executives in Latin America. They examine the determinants of women’s representation in legislative and executive office and show that institutions and cross-arena diffusion are key explanations. Escobar-Lemmon and Funk show that women in local executive and legislative offices have worked to promote gender equality and women’s issues and worked to transform political arenas in ways that make them less biased toward women. They do, however, point out some significant challenges for gender equality in subnational politics—women are not getting into local executive offices to the same extent as they are legislative offices, subnational party politics has not been friendly to women, and gender balance is far from assured in local judiciaries and bureaucracies.

Women in Presidential Cabinets

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson ◽  
Meredith P. Gleitz
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Democratic Transition ◽  
Small Degree ◽  
Women's Issues ◽  
Access To Resources ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Gender Balance ◽  
Political Crises ◽  
And Gender ◽  
National Legislatures

Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson and Meredith P. Gleitz show that the overall representation of women in cabinets has increased significantly since the democratic transition, but women and men tend to be represented in stereotypically gendered cabinet portfolios and women who get appointed look like men in experience, backgrounds, and other qualifications. They identify the main causes of the increase in women’s presence in cabinets as the recent political crises that have led to outsider, leftist, and female (to only a very small degree) presidents who select more women. Additionally, as women are getting more represented in national legislatures and subnational governments, they are more represented in cabinets. The consequences of greater gender balance in cabinets for women’s issues and gender equality programs are minimal. Female cabinet ministers find it difficult to promote women’s issues because they are often in posts with little access to resources or need to implement the president’s priorities instead.

scholarly journals RECEPTING GENDER THOUGHTS IN MAMAOS CIANJURAN (CDA against Ceurik Rahwana and Tangis Anjani)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Barkah Barkah
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
West Java ◽  
Gender Balance ◽  
And Gender

Ceurik Rahwana and Tangis Anjani are part of Mamaos Cianjuran (a kind of opening poem), which is the oral tradition of song in West Java. Ceurik Rahwana and Tangis Anjani were chosen as study objects because of their unique gender. The study method uses critical discourse analysis. The results of the study were in the form of gender values from the local wisdom of Ceurik Rahwana and Tangis Anjani. The sympathies of this study concerning gender equality and gender balance (equilibrium), in essence, gender equality is not the same as a whole, but share the role of each other to glorify each other.

Rationalizing gender inequality at scientific research organizations

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 689-706
Author(s):  
Namrata Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
Male Dominance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Research Organizations ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Social Organizational

PurposeIt is well-known that women scientists are few in numbers in prestigious research organizations and still fewer in leadership positions. The purpose of this article is to analyze how organizational gender inequality is rationalized by scientists so as to highlight how discourse on equality reproduces gender at the workplace.Design/methodology/approachData was collected through semi-structured face-to-face interviews with the scientists in four research laboratories dealing with medicinal drugs and chemical substances. It uses discourse analysis by Foucault as a theoretical lens to examine how gender inequality is rationalized and the power relations behind it. It adopts the perspective that socio-cultural beliefs form the basis of gendered practices in organizations.FindingsIt finds that the scientists refuse to blame the organization for inequalities by delinking gender issues from the organizational domain. This delinking occurs through rationalizing gender inequality as “social”, through separating informal behavior from the “system” and perceiving women as “privileged”. Such discourses while keeping intact the rationality and meritocracy of the organizations/institutions, reproduce the ideological “public-private dichotomy” and the male dominance at the workplace.Practical implicationsThe findings indicate the need for extensive studies in India highlighting how gender is done in organizations, exploring men's role in undoing gender and government initiatives to create a climate of gender equality.Originality/valueIt highlights how discourse on gender equality/inequality at the workplace manifests dominance of men and represents an intersection of Indian social, organizational and institutional contexts at workplace. It also calls into question the applicability of the western concepts of “individualization” and “gender fatigue” to the Indian context.

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