Goals and tasks of gender equality work

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.

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.