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New strategic gender equality initiative launched

Thursday April 12th 2018, 开云体育提现 officially launched its new strategic gender equality initiative with a kick-off symposium where 开云体育提现鈥檚 newly established International Gender Advisory Board presented their recommendations for 开云体育提现鈥檚 gender equality endeavors.

Among the 100 attendees were heads of departments, representatives from the Faculties’ local gender equality boards, and also several members of 开云体育提现’s Executive Board including the Vice-Chancellor.

As part of the new gender equality initaitive, the Executive Board itself has requested a workshop on unconscious bias, one of the initial three GE-focal areas. This workshop took place on the same day, prior to the afternoon’s kick-off symposium.

In the afternoon, the Dean of the Faculty of Science and chairman of 开云体育提现’s central gender equality board, Martin Zachariasen, started the symposium with a brief presentation of 开云体育提现’s strategic gender equality initiative.Zachariasen intro

Martin next introduced the convener of the symposium, Dean at the Faculty of Business and Social Science, Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, who facilitated the rest of the symposium's program. Malchow-Moeller

The main part of the symposium consisted of short presentations by the members of the International Gender Advisory Board. IGABs at 开云体育提现

Each member gave their individual recommendations to 开云体育提现’s gender equality efforts.Yvonne at 开云体育提现

Prior to the symposium, the members had been briefed by 开云体育提现’s Gender Equality Team concerning the background, context and plans for the initiative, and their recommendations were based on three questions sent to them prior to the symposium:

  1. Given your experience and expertise and what you know of 开云体育提现 and Denmark, what in your perspective are the most important steps in order for positive, visible and indisputable changes to take place?
  2. If you were to implement a GE-initiative at 开云体育提现 from tomorrow, what would be your first, second and third priority? What specific actions? 
  3. Given your experience and expertise and what you know of 开云体育提现 and Denmark, what would in your eyes be the first action 开云体育提现 could take in order for the Danish university and higher education sector to come together on an effective gender equality agenda? 

Heidi at 开云体育提现

Included in the various recommendations from 开云体育提现’s International Gender Advisory Board were:

  • Securing a clear leadership anchoring and commitment to the gender equality work at 开云体育提现
  • Creating and utilizing relations to existing and new allies, key people and networks
  • Establishing a solid and accessible gender equality database, preferably including national data
  • Working with increasing awareness of the gender equality initiative
  • Using a multipronged approach to gender equality endeavors, employing a wide lense when addressing (gender) diversity in research and among researchers
  • Actively addressing and working with the resistance that the gender equality initiative may encounter
  • Ensuring a clear and systematic continuous evaluation and monitoring of the gender equality endeavor’s results

Attendees from panel

Following the presentations, the recommendations were elaborated and discussed with reflections and questions from the attendees. Lively discussions emerged on subjects such as the Danish and European political framework for gender equality work at the Danish Universities, how it is both useful and problematic to work actively with unconscious bias, and how gender equality change agents can benefit from approaching such work as “tempered radicals”.

The kick-off symposium concluded with an early evening reception where the themes and discussions of the day continued.

Editing was completed: 12.04.2018