Gender Equality Action Plan
Gender Equality Action Plan
With the Gender Equality Action Plan 2020, the University of Oldenburg has systematized its gender equality work and anchored important processes. A new gender equality plan is drawn up every 3-4 years in a participatory process to focus the university's gender equality agenda and set out concrete measures to achieve the goals.
In July 2023, the university management approved the final report on the implementation of the Central Gender Equality Plan 2020 (only accessible internally). This report describes the coordination and management of implementation, assesses the achievement of the targets, analyses the progress made in relation to the ten areas of action and four priorities of the equality plan and presents the final status of the individual measures. With the submission of this report, the implementation of the university's first centralised equality plan has been successfully completed.
A working group of the Senate’s commission for gender equality (KFG) is currently working on the further development of the Gender Equality Action Plan 2024. The aim is to build on this first plan in order to retain what has been tried and tested and make corrections in other areas.
Gender Equality Action Plan 2020
In February 2020, the Gender Equality Action Plan 2020 was adopted by the University's Senate as well as the Executive Board, marking the first time a gender equality plan has been adopted at the university. The plan was developed by a working group of the Commission for Gender Equality.
At the heart of the equality plan was a catalogue of 124 measures which were to be implemented by the end of 2022. Responsible for the implementation of the measures were both central and decentralised organizational units and schools. The Gender Equality Action Plan 2020 also included an inventory of existing structures, regulations and programmes on equal opportunities as well as a comprehensive analysis of strengths and weaknesses, which depicts the gender ratio in various status groups and committees.
Focal points of the Gender Equality Action Plan 2020
The Gender Equality Plan 2020 sets four priorities for the university's gender equality strategy in the coming years:
- A gender-sensitive university culture
- Promoting early career female researchers
- Recruitment of female scientists
- A diversity and anti-discrimination strategy
Measures of the Gender Equality Action Plan 2020
The catalogue of measures in the Gender Equality Action Plan contains 124 equal opportunities measures whose implementation is the responsibility of central and/or decentral organisational units or of schools' deans' offices. These measures include
- Standards for promoting equal opportunity in the faculties (#2)
- A university network for gender equality (#3)
- Monitoring gender equality among doctoral students and doctorate academic staff (#6-7)
- A mentoring programme for early career female researchers (#59)
- A guideline and training on active recruitment (#76-79)
- A guideline on gender-sensitive language (#110)
- A diversity strategy (#118)