Goals and tasks

One of the most important current goals is to increase the proportion of female professors. To this end, programs such as the Federal Women Professors Program and the Junior Professors Program are being implemented. Through active recruitment and gender awareness in appointment procedures, women are to be encouraged to apply for positions in subjects in which they are underrepresented, and gender-specific stereotypes are to be dismantled.

In order to increase the proportion of female students in mathematical and technical subjects and to reduce the number of female students dropping out at the beginning of their studies, measures such as the mentoring project of the Equal Opportunities, Diversity and Family Office and the Schoolgirls' Day / Girls' Day are organized. As there are only a few degree programs at RPTU in which men are significantly underrepresented, the offers focus on supporting female students.

The Central Equal Opportunities Officers are appointed by the University Senate. Their tasks are highly structural in nature. They are involved in all university bodies and represent the rights of women and the legal mandate of equality vis-à-vis the university management, the Senate, the University Council, the Human Resources Department and other internal university bodies. There is a close exchange with the university management, the Senate Committee for Gender Equality, the decentralized Equal Opportunities Officers of all departments, the Staff Council, the Secretaries' Network, the Asta Department for Social Affairs and the Equal Opportunities, Diversity and Family Office.

In addition, the Equal Opportunities Officers are committed to fulfilling the tasks set out in Section 2 (2): "The universities shall 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.