Goals and tasks of gender equality work
Goals
All state university laws stipulate that universities must appoint both decentralized equal opportunities officers in the departments and administration and a central equal opportunities officer (§ 4 HSchG).
Equality between women and men, increasing the proportion of women in academic and management positions and optimizing the compatibility of career, studies and family are important development goals of the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau. These are set out in the equal opportunities plan. Due to the merger of the universities in Kaiserslautern and Landau, there is currently a separate plan for each location until a joint equal opportunities plan is adopted.
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Our aim is to work together with all equal opportunities officers at RPTU to ensure that equal opportunities and family friendliness are taken for granted in all areas of the university. The main focus is therefore on structural changes.
Further goals are:
- Increasing the proportion of women in all occupational groups and qualification positions in which they are currently underrepresented
- Ensuring equal opportunities and equal opportunities for women and men
- Promoting young talents and young academics
- Promotion the personnel development of women
- Improving the compatibility of family and employment for women and men
- Working towards equal participation of women and men in all university committees and
- Preventing and combating sexualized harassment, violence and discrimination
- and many more
One of the currently important goals is to increase the proportion of female professors. To this end, programmes such as the federal female professor programme and junior professor programmes are implemented. Active recruitment and gender awareness raising in appointment procedures will be carried out to encourage women to apply for jobs in subjects where they are under-represented and to address gender stereotypes.
In order to increase the female student ratio in the mathematical engineering subjects and to reduce the drop-out of female students at the beginning of their studies, measures such as the Mentoring project of the Gender Equality and Family Affairs Office like Schoolgirls' Day / Girls' Day are organised. Since there are only a few courses of study at RPTU in which men are clearly under-represented, the offers concentrate on the promotion of female students.
Tasks
The central Equal Opportunities Officers are appointed by the University Senate. Their tasks are highly structural. They are involved in all university committees and represent the rights of women and the statutory equal opportunities mandate vis-à-vis the university management, the Senate, the University Council, the Human Resources Department and other internal university committees. There is a close exchange with the university management, the Senate Committee for Equal Opportunities, the decentralized Equal Opportunities Officers of all departments, the Staff Council, the network of female secretaries, the Asta Department for Social Affairs and the Office for Equal Opportunities, Diversity and Family.
In addition, the Equal Opportunities Officers are committed to the fulfillment of the tasks according to § 2 para. 2: "The universities promote the actual implementation of equal rights for women and men and work towards the elimination of existing disadvantages" with various measures and offers for equal opportunities and equality for women of all university status groups.
Tasks in accordance with Section 72 (4) (HochSchG):
- Participation in all social, organizational and personnel measures that affect female employees
- Contact person with an advisory function for all university members
- Supporting the university bodies (University Council, Senate, President; tasks of the Senate in compliance with § 2 para. 1 sentence 5 Gender Mainstreaming ) and the committees formed by them
- Participation in the creation and implementation of the university's equality plan
- Support in the awarding of scholarships and other measures for the promotion of young academics and the personal development of women
- Initiation and implementation of program-related activities (e.g. Gender and Diversity Day)
- Implementation of measures to prevent and combat sexualized harassment, violence and discrimination
- and many more
The Senate Equal Opportunities Officer must be informed in good time in order to carry out her duties. She can make statements, participate in meetings of all committees in an advisory capacity and submit motions; her statements must be attached to the documents (§ 72 HochSchG).
Contact
Gender Equality Officer
Office of the Gender Equality Officer
Bürgerstraße 23
Building BS | Ground Floor
D-76829 Landau
Gender Equality Officer
Prof. Dr. Francesca Vidal
Location: RPTU in Landau
T +49 (0) 6341 280-32770
E francesca.vidal[at]rptu.de
Deputy Gender Equality Officer
Prof. Dr. Gabi Troeger-Weiß
Location: RPTU in Kaiserslautern
T +49 (0) 631 205-4701
E gabi.troegerweiss[at]rptu.de
Equality, Diversity & Family Affairs Unit
Kaiserslautern Office
PO Box 3049
D-67653 Kaiserslautern
Building 57, ground floor
Head
Dr. Cornelia Rövekamp
T +49 (0)631 205-5902
E c.roevekamp[at]rptu.de
Family Service
Dipl.-Sozialwiss. Leslie Schleese
Building: 57 Room: 271
T +49(0)631 250-4323
E l.schleese[at]rptu.de
Landau Office
Bürgerstraße 23
D-76829 Landau
Building BS, ground floor
Head
Heide Gieseke
T +49 (0)631 205-5902
E heide.gieseke[at]rptu.de
Family Service
Dr. Jane Kühn
Building BS, Room 135
T +49(0)6341 280-37252
E jane.kuehn[at]rptu.de