An Innovative IT-Supported Approach Facilitating Co-Design of Tailored Gender Equality Plans

Gorbacheva, Elena; Moumtzi, Vasiliki; Stein, Armin


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.

Keywords
Gender equality; Gender Equality Plan; Crowdsourcing; Co-design; Participatory approach; STEM



Publication type
Research article (book contribution)

Peer reviewed
No

Publication status
Published

Year
2019

Book title
Institutional Change for Gender Equality in Research - Lesson Learned from the Field

Editor
Sangiuliano, Maria; Cortesi, Agostino

Start page
47

End page
58

Volume
4

Title of series
Scienza e società

Publisher
Edizioni Ca’ Foscari

Place
Venice

Language
English

ISBN
978-88-6969-335-9

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