Institutional Change for Gender Equality in Research
Lesson Learned from the Field
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abstract
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.
University • Learn-by-doing approach • Research organizations • Research organisation • Boards of directors • Context sensitive monitoring • Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) • Gender • Quantitative and qualitative approach • Gender equality in research • Academia • Equality • Gender stereotypes • ICT Summer Camp • Inclusion • Diversity • Planning • Gender equality in ICT/IST research institutions • Engineering • STEM • Sustainability • Gender Equality Plan • Institutional change • Participatory approach • Italy • Tools • Gender equality plans • Control bodies • Co-design • Information Sciences and Technology • Gender Equality Plans (GEPS) • Information Systems • Cohalition building • Interventions • Gender equality • Inequality • Structural changes • Implementation • Gender Equality Plans • Crowdsourcing • Gender Gap • Participatory assessment and design • Structural change • Research • Gender audits • Physics • Participatory Gender Audit • IST research organizations • Resistances • Institutional communication • Gender segregation