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Austrian Research Centres
Mainstreaming Gender Equality in Austria
Katy Whitelegg
Austrian Research Centres
Women in Science: Mainstreaming Gender Equality in the
European Research Area
3 December, Rome
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Contents
 The Austrian situation:
 National programmes
 Monitoring gender equality
 The ARC approach
 Promoting gender equality on the national level - what kind of
initiatives?
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National level initiatives - fFORTE
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fFORTE – Women in Science and Technology
A national level initiative to support women in science and technology
Initiated in 2002 by the Council for Science and Technology
fFORTE is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Education, Science and
Culture and the Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology
 Initiative supports women during all phases of their education and
career
 It has two main parts: the university sector and the non-university and
industrial research sector
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National level initiatives - FEMtech
 FEMtech is part of fFORTE
 FEMtech‘s focus is on women in industrial and non-university research
institutes
 The initiative concentrates on supporting four areas:
 Careers in industrial research
 Women in the non-university research sector
 Degree courses in polytechnics that could attract more women into technical
subjects
 Analysing the Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology’s own RTD
programmes
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Monitoring gender inequalities
 University sector
 High legislative standards to support women in research
 Affirmative action plans/ Women’s representatives
 Biannual monitoring as part of the Science Report to the parliament
 Non-university research sector
 Projects established to monitor and analyse women in the non-university
research sector (ARC, Joanneum)
 Data collection to include quantitative and qualitative characteristics
 FEMtech to support cohesion and networking between actors
 Increasing activities on firm level (ÖMV)
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Women in the ARC-Group
ARC Group
31.12.2000
31.12.2001
31.12.2002
No. of employees
518
571
600
Researchers (full-time
equivalent) in %
45.3
47.1
49.7
Female employees (fte) in %
23.4
24.9
24.2
Female researchers as share of
total researchers (fte) in %
12.8
14.9
14.9
Female researchers as share of
total number of researchers in %
13
14.8
15.5
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ARC – approach to gender equality
 Aim: to increase the number of women working for the ARC Group,
especially those in management positions
 Through: establishing a comprehensive monitoring system that
includes:
 Applications, recruitment and promotion
 Project activities, publications, conferences, teaching activities
 Contract researchers, masters students and PhDs
 Through analysing internal barriers to the promotion of women
 Developing initiatives to counteract discrimination
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Multi-faceted approach required
 National level commitment to increase awareness, to stimulate debate,
to develop coherence and facilitate exchange
 Monitoring on the level of the individual institutes, universities and
firms
 Exchange of experience on successful policies and initiatives on
different levels including
 Dissemination of EU activities
 Exchange of success stories in the national context
 European and international good practise
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