Appointments and recruitment procedures
The Equal Opportunities Officer or one of her deputies shall be involved in all steps of an appointment procedure in an advisory capacity. Together with the members of an appointment committee, she shall ensure that the appointment procedure is conducted in an orderly and transparent manner and that women are not disadvantaged in the process, but are given preference in the case of equal qualifications, as long as there is no gender parity in the respective faculty.
Attracting Female Professors to the Faculties
Guest lectures by female academics even before an appointment, their targeted search and approach, and equal representation on the committee: the list of possible measures to promote equality in the selection process is long.
The FH Aachen is developing the brochure "How to win female professors?" for all faculties for their appointment practice, with a checklist and links to many other services. The tips will range from the design of the advertisement to the procedure of the selection interview. As soon as the brochure is ready, we will publish it here.
Equality information material:
Gender bias
Gender bi as refers to systematic bias effects that are shaped by gender-related stereotyping and prejudices and influence both perceptions and decisions. Gender bias also affects science and research, for example in relation to research design and results as well as personnel policy decisions. It thus shapes science and research despite supposedly objective performance and evaluation standards and despite the aspired ideal of independent, gender-neutral research. Studies have shown gender bias in selection processes, funding and financing opportunities, and teaching evaluations, among other things. These results are summarised in publications of EU research networks, including LERU, ECU, STI Conference. The article "Does Gender Bias Still Affect Women in Science?" also provides a good overview of the state of research.
Source: Gender bias in science
Women Scientists' Databases and Other Sources of Information, for Example for Scouting Procedures
- AcademiaNet is a Europe-wide database of female academics from all faculties.
- Datenbank FH-Professorin sees itself as a placement and contact exchange on the topic of FH professorships in the German-speaking world and includes both the search for job offers and for female applicants. It is a service of Lakof Baden-Württemberg.
- European Platform of Women Scientists is a network of European women scientists.
- /femsoncult - FemConsult is the largest interdisciplinary database for the placement of women scientists in leading positions in German-speaking countries, located at the Competence Centre Women in Science and Research, CEWS, a working area of GESIS, the Institute for Social Sciences.
- Femdat maintains a database for women scientists and experts from various scientific disciplines in Switzerland.
- FemTech is an Austrian database for women scientists in the fields of research and technology in German-speaking countries.
- GEPRIS, the DFG's project database, helps you to search specifically for women scientists in early career phases, sorted by subject area or within DFG funding programmes.
- Home | AcademiaNet (academia-net.org)
The database run by the Robert Bosch Stiftung and Spektrum der Wissenschaft contains more than 2,700 profiles of top female researchers from over 40 different subject areas. - Portal "Datensammlungen Geschlechterforschung" is a service of the Margherita von Brentano Centre of the Free University of Berlin. It contains several data collections in the field of women's and gender studies in the form of a digitally managed, cross-searchable database system.
- Speaker List lists women who are available as speakers for conferences, panels and talk shows and makes it easier for those responsible to search for experts for events. Women can register themselves in the database with their topics and references and thus become more visible.
- Womens Engineering Society is a network for women engineers and scientists in the UK.
- 500 Women Scientists lists female scientists worldwide, especially from the STEM field.