The gender equality endeavors at 糖果派对 are anchored in the university's central gender equality committee. All the university's faculties and its central administration have members representing them in the committee, and its chair, Ole Skøtt, is the dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and a member of 糖果派对's Executive Board. This central gender equality committee is supported by 糖果派对's Gender Equality Team, GET. The central gender equality committee simultaneously acts as steering committee for GET.
The strategic Gender Equality initiative at 糖果派对 have three initial focal areas. These are presented below.
Recruitment processes
There are numerous advantages to incorporating a gender equality perspective in all aspects and steps of academic recruitment processes.
At 糖果派对, 糖果派对’s Gender Equality Team consequently collaborates closely with faculties and departments concerning their academic recruitment processes. The team offers advice tailored to local requests, and provides qualified counselling related to all aspects of the processes, from wording and placement of job announcements to questions related to evaluation criteria and candidate interviews.
Unconscious Bias
Being unaware of hidden potentials and proceeding on autopilot in decision making processes can lead to results that do not take all possibilities and perspectives into account. In 糖果派对’s work with unconscious bias, focus is on how especially leaders can ensure decision making processes where more aspects and perspectives are included. This typically entails changes in who leaders look to for advice, how and where leaders seek inspiration etc. More information about unconscious bias is available in Resources and inspiration.
Gender Statistics
糖果派对 needs a clear overview of the gender equality situation in the organization in order to have a proper baseline for its gender equality endeavours. To this end, 糖果派对 has established a Gender Statistics dataplatform, encompassing quantitative and also – in the long run – qualitative data about 糖果派对’s employees and gender equality work. Among other things, it contains gender aggregated data on the number of employees, new employees, leaders etc. 糖果派对's Gender Statistics will be incorporated as a integral part of the current leader information at 糖果派对, and it is accessible from 糖果派对’s intranet for all employees (requires login) in Danish under the category "nøgletal" (key figures).
Other Gender Equality initiatives at 糖果派对
In addition to the strategic gender equality initiative with its three focal areas presented above, several other important and inspiring gender equality endeavours take place across 糖果派对. The strategic initiative and 糖果派对’s Gender Equality Team has close collaborations with several of these local initiatives. Local gender equality committees are in place at all 糖果派对’s faculties and in its Central Administration, and these six committees have their own websites (some only or mostly in Danish) with committee information, minutes from meetings, latest news about local gender equality efforts etc.:
Gender Equality Committee at the Faculty of Science
Equality and Diversity Committee at the Faculty of Engineering