Traditionally, one shouldn’t start a story by revealing its end. I would, however, like to allow myself a license to answer the title question: which will come first, the vaccine for Covid-19 or for inequality? A PCR test isn’t necessary to realise that the first one will arrive earlier. Otherwise, we would have to walk around wearing masks until the end of our days. In fact, this pandemic has further accentuated the gender gap in science.
Our first indicator is the drop in scientific production. According to an analysis published by Vox EU, the percentage of women who published papers in the first 4 months of 2020 is similar to that of 2019 (around 20%). During the pandemic, this dropped to 12%. In this same vein, the Nature Index (a classification focused on research published in a selection of academic journals of natural sciences of the Nature group) tells us that we are weathering the same storm, but not in the same boat. The current crisis will have medium and long-term consequences for the career progression of female researchers. The quarantine has had the opposite effect that working from home might have promised.
The differences in time devoted by women and men to care and domestic work increased during the lockdown. A questionnaire applied by the Women’s Unit of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation among 1,563 researchers on the impact of quarantine and lockdown shows us that almost 50% of women (compared to 20% of men) were solely in charge of housework, while 43.8% of women (versus 18.3% of men) assumed primary family caring responsibilities.
The pandemic has forced us to open the heretofore hidden space of the home in meetings and online conferences. This is the reality showed by the scientist Gretchen Goldman in her Twitter account who – after being interviewed by CNN from her living room – brought to light the usually unseen: “Just to be honest. #DíaDeUnaMamáCientífica” (#TheDayOfAScientificMom).
The H2020 SUPERA Project (Supporting the Promotion of Equality in Research and Academia) designed a survey on working conditions, use of academic time and academic performance. After being launched in June 2020 at the Complutense University of Madrid, the survey collected almost 1,600 responses and presented clear preliminary results. Gender roles in academic work identified before the pandemic have been exacerbated during the pandemic: women stated that they spend more time preparing classes and assisting students, while men dedicate themselves to writing and submitting their academic outcomes for publication.
Survey on academic working conditions, the perception of the use of academic time and academic performance during the Covid-19.
This has also been the pandemic of male doctors and female nurses, despite women being the majority in both medicine and nursing.
Source: Ministry of Equality of the Spanish Government, based on data from the Active Population Survey (EPA).
The expert voices starring in the media during the pandemic did not come from women either. The Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College London analysed 146,867 press articles covering the Covid-19 crisis, published between March 1 and July 31, 2020 in the media in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States. For every mention of a female expert in STEM areas (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), 19 mentions were made of a male expert. For every mention of a female economist, there were 5 of men.
As I read some time ago from my colleague Pilar Kaltzada, “the first feminist strike of 2018 chose the slogan: ‘If we stop, the world stops.’ But when the world stopped, we had to run more and in all directions.”
Espacio de Mujeres Líderes en Educación Superior de las Américas (EMULIES)
Host Institutions
Inter-American Organization for Higher Education
Type of intervention
Social Commitment
Innovation
Internationalization
Sustainable Development
Organizational Management and Leadership
Country
International
Source
DA
Brief Description
Promoting female leadership in HEIs of the Americas.
This mission revolves around the following strategic objectives:
To contribute to the strengthening of the leadership and participation of
women in decision-making in higher education;
To promote the construction of HEIs that are more and more democratic,
inclusive and socially responsible;
To provide rigorous information and updates on the status of women within
HEIs; and
To influence higher education policies in favour of gender equality.
The Botanic Garden has included “respect for diversity” as one of its values and wants to structurally anchor diversity in its personnel policy. To this end, the Botanic Garden has included actions related to diversity in the business plan and in the culture plan (“diversity”):
Recruiting young or not yet graduated students as part of the Agency’s core tasks to implement the objectives of the target groups (ongoing action)
Raising awareness among staff members and managers about diversity issues and diversity actions
Include diversity in training plan
Querying diversity in staff satisfaction surveys
Developing the role of coach (colleague female/ male) in the workplace
Being open to and capturing suggestions from staff members about diversity
Measures in the event of adjustments to work equipment / working conditions for people with a disability.
Additionally the Garden is part of the Science4Refugees program via EURAXESS.
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Pakistani Educational Leadership Project - PELP
Host Institutions
Plymouth State University
Type of intervention
Training
Country
Pakistan
Source
DA
Brief Description
PELP is a project funded by the US Department of State which is designed to contribute to the growth and development of the educational system in Pakistan through the introduction of teacher-trainers, educational administrators and other educational leaders to new methods and ideas. Among its goals and actions, the project provides science educators with leadership skills to effect change at the grassroots through the development of trainings primarily focused on educational leadership, environmental stewardship, and cultural heritage preservation.
The programme is part of a strategic initiative to develop and strengthen leadership training in higher education institutions, operating in conjunction with institution’s own research management and institutional leadership programmes. Dean School is focused on university and university college deans, as well as on department heads of the largest institutions and is aimed at enhancing participant’s skills and developing their leadership role.
Poland's new autonomy and governance framework for higher education
Host Institutions
Ministry of National Education
Type of intervention
Positive Action / Direct Intervention
Country
Poland
Source
DA
Brief Description
Polish policy makers have developed a higher education reform in the country aimed at achieving greater university autonomy, strategic governance, leadership, management and operational efficiency. The new law is intended to provide higher education institutions with autonomy to determine their internal governance and organisation structures. Among the new practices, the policy strengths the role of the rector, provides a new funding model in which funds are awarded to universities rather than to their organisational units. In addition, universities will have more autonomy to allocate the combined subsidy they will receive for teaching and research. Finally, while maintaining its academic ethos, the policy creates new dynamics and stimulate innovation and entrepreneurship in universities, therefore opening more room for managerial decisions and stimulating innovation on business partnerships.
Heads of University Management and Administration Network in Europe – HUMANE
Type of intervention
Training
Country
International
Source
DA
Brief Description
HUMANE consists of an international association whose aims are to build international networks to foster innovation in higher education services and to drive professional excellence in higher education management. Besides supporting the professional development of current executive leaders within the HE sector, it also provides programmes to promising senior staff such as seminars and conferences, study visits, residential schools and the design of professional pathways on research management, management of impact, human resources management, etc.
European Guidelines and Quality Labels for new Curricula Fostering e-Leadership Skills
Host Institutions
European Commission
Type of intervention
Training
Country
International
Source
DA
Brief Description
The Guidelines are the result of ‘CEN ICT Skills Workshop’, following a formal process to become a CEN Workshop Agreement to be endorsed by the National Members of CEN. Open to education institutions, industry and associations, the initiative launched by the European Commission responds to the inadequacies in the skills market flagged by stakeholders across the EU. Precisely, the institution has begun commissioning studies and launching initiatives designed to foster a full range of skills relating to ICT, “e-skills” and skills gap in the ‘e-leadership’ domain.
Arab European Leadership Network in Higher Education – ARELEN
Host Institutions
Universities in the Arab Region
Type of intervention
Networking
Country
International
Source
DA
Brief Description
This programme is an outcome of the Tempus project “Leadership in Higher Education Management”. It provides different programmes and activities aimed at building bridges among universities in the region and implementing capacity building. Among the developed initiatives are the “Leadership for Performance in HE: Building and Leading High Performance Teams”, “‘Lean Thinking’ for Performance in HE”, and “Research Leadership and Creating Capacity in Research”.
European Consortium of Innovative Universities – ECIU
Type of intervention
Training
Country
International
Source
DA
Brief Description
Launched in 2003, the programme intends to contribute to innovation and change in leadership development at the participating ECIU universities by providing leaders/potential leaders with the possibility to participate in seminars and develop skills such as identifying particular characteristics and challenges of leadership and strategic management in a university context, and developing personal leadership qualities and skills.
Ghent University, Göttingen University, Groningen University, and Uppsala University
Type of intervention
Training
Country
International
Source
DA
Brief Description
The U4 Academic Leadership programme is a training course for top-level executives in university management which allows university leaders from academia and administration to strengthen their skills in leadership and to learn more about university management. Focusing on strategic leadership, creating international leadership networks and developing and sharing knowledge, skills and experiences of international trends, problems and solutions, the programme consists of sessions that deal with themes such as transparency and accountability in European universities.
Lidera - Programa de Formación de Jóvenes en Liderazgo
Host Institutions
Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Instituto de Estudios Superior de Administración y Universidad Metropolitana
Type of intervention
Training
Country
Venezuela
Source
DA
Brief Description
The programme is aimed at strengthening the capacities and generating relational skills of young people from different regions of the country, with profiles of social, cultural, political, business and student action.
Participants are selected annually among young people between the ages of 18 and 30 from all states of the country, who have a leadership profile and potential to teamwork and networking.
Robert Bosch Stifung and Spektrum der Wissenschaft
Type of intervention
Dataset
Country
International
Source
DA
Brief Description
With the goal of tackling the underrepresentation of women in leadership positions in academia and the sciences, AcademiaNet is a tool that provides numerous profiles of excellent women academics from every discipline, making them more visible and easily accessible. Initially exposing profiles of German-speaking women academics, the portal has been gradually internationalised and expanded, containing now information both in German and in English. Since 2012, the portal has become a European database for those searching for suitable female candidates for influential academic and scientific positions.
The association was established in 2015 with the aim of promoting the role of women in leadership positions in the academic sector and to advocate gender equality in higher education and research at European and international scales. Its focuses revolve, among others, around the development of strategies and policies that encourage women academics to target leadership positions, the creation of opportunities for increasing women’s representation in higher education, research and decision-making positions, and the balanced participation of women and men in academic leadership.
Founded in a joint initiative between Universities UK and GuildHE, AdvanceHE is a company aimed at improving the management, governance and leadership skills of existing and future higher education leaders in the UK. It promotes research and practical initiatives on equality in the academic sector and, based on the analysis of the unequal status of women and men in academic positions, positive actions have been taken to address this imbalance in staff recruitment, selection and promotion processes. Among others, actions involve the possibility of appointing women over men in tie-break situations where there is an underrepresentation of women, as well as measures to avoid the distinction between male and female candidates in interviews. Moreover, also aimed at addressing the gender imbalance in higher education institutions, formal mentoring programmes have been implemented to support the progress of women’s careers in the sector.
The Gender, Leadership and Inclusion Centre (GLIC)
Host Institutions
Cranfield School of management
Type of intervention
Research
Country
United Kingdom
Source
DA
Brief Description
The Gender, Leadership and Inclusion Centre (GLIC) bridges research and practice in the areas of gender, leadership and inclusion at work. It is aimed at ensuring an evidence-based approach to attaining every woman’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels in professional life. The program develops actions such as:
International and applied research agenda in contemporary developments on gender diversity,including intersectionality, privilege and inclusive leadership.
Produceing academic research in partnership with organisations, policy partners and research councils.
Collaborating with industry to identify and analyse gender diversity issues pertinent to industry and practitioners.
To achieve the goals of the programme, GLIC provides a variety of projects such as the Female FTSE Index, the Female FTSE Board Report, the Women to Watch, among others.
Aimed at transforming the University’s promotion processes to make them more appealing to women and inclusive, in addition to recognising the central importance of research and teaching, the Leicester Academic Career Map gives a special attention to the explicit recognition of contributions to enterprise, engagement, citizenship and leadership – areas that are often undertaken by women but had not been clearly rewarded through the University’s promotion routes in the past. The map specifies what individuals need to achieve in order to be considered for promotion and focuses upon the impact that achievement has had upon others. In order to sustain change, the institution continuously provides a pipeline to progression through development opportunities including leadership training, return- to-career fellowships, mentoring and coaching. Finally, as a HeForShe Champion, the University became an attractive employer for women, providing on site childcare, promoting flexible working options and tackling a gender pay gap.
Identification, Development, Advancement and Support - IDAS
Host Institutions
Association of Swedish Higher Education Institutions
Type of intervention
Networking Training Mentoring
Country
Sweden
Source
DA
Brief Description
Created from a cooperative effort between several national institutions, the IDAS was a leadership development project aimed at increasing the number of women in leadership positions at universities and university colleges in Sweden. By launching measures such as the establishment of local, regional and national networks, competence-building seminars, leadership development and mentoring programmes, surveys and reports, the programme encouraged and supported women academics to pursue leadership and administrative careers in higher education institutions.
Launched on 1 January 2019 as a strategic plan to address gender inequality in the faculty, GENIE is a long-term programme aimed at implementing concrete changes in academic culture, systems and processes. Holding the final goal of increasing the proportion of women professors from 17% today to 40% by 2029, it proposes a combination of bottom-up and top-down efforts to redress gender inequality and set up tailor-made activities for each department. Through such actions, the programme intends to remove obstacles that hamper women’s careers, creating working environments that are diverse and inclusive and support excellence in research and teaching. Priorities such as the direct recruitment of top female researchers are part of the strategic plan, as well as the incorporation of gender aspects into all statistics and a broader sharing of data concerning pay and qualifications in promotions at the institution.
Action plan for gender mainstreaming at Karlstad University 2017-2019
Host Institutions
Karlstad University
Type of intervention
Awareness Raising Training
Country
Sweden
Source
EURAXESS
Brief Description
Following government directives in 2016, Karlstad University developed an ambitious plan to gender mainstream its operations. This plan focused on four areas: (1) Teaching, (2) Research, (3) Management and support processes, and (4) Regulation and overall governance. In the case of management and support processes, the aim was to have gender equality permeating routines and attitudes related to leadership, skills supply, working conditions, work environment and administrative support.
Several development needs were identified:
Gendered expectations, as well as formal and informal power structures have to be considered from the perspective of gender equality.
A gender-equal approach has to be taken to systematic work environment improvement, mapping and measures.
Administrative routines, recruitment and conditions for leadership have to be gender equal.
A gender-equal, norm-critical approach has to be integrated into leadership development programmes and into courses in teaching and learning in higher education.
Furthermore a number of actions to be implemented were proposed, specifying what structures were responsible:
Shedding light on gendered expectations and conditions of appointed leaders and suggest measures (Deans and university directors)
Shedding light on the recruitment of leaders and suggest measures from a gender-equality perspective (Deans and university directors)
Training heads and chairs of boards receive in gender-equal communication, gender-equal meetings and norm-critical perspectives (Head of HR).
Launched in 2004, the AKKA is a gender-integrated leadership programme that aims at raising gender knowledge and awareness and providing methods and tools for structural change to achieve sustainable gender equality. Providing short and long-term goals, the programme initially focused on encouraging female researchers working at Lund University to apply for deans and vice- deans, in order to further achieve the final goal of increasing the number of female leaders at the institution.
In addition to focusing on the number of women in leadership roles, the programme also implemented awareness campaigns and provided methods and tools to pursue structural changes, involving both women and men in such actions. To this end, seminars, workshops and a project work were designed and serve as discussion forums where participants exchange experiences and knowledge. Precisely in the project work, the purpose is to identify and analyse particular discriminatory practices from an integrated gender and diversity perspective, pursuing possibilities for change through constructive solutions.
Since its launch the programme has been offered annually for senior scholars at the university and, among other positive impacts, it has increased the number of women in leading positions, contributed to their visibility as potential leaders, increased willingness of both genders to undertake leadership positions, and developed tools to deal with resistance to gender issues and for change management.
NTNU has adopted an internal policy that encourages and promotes qualified women in academic and administrative positions. Female researchers can take advantage of a variety of programmes and services such as start packages for women in permanent scientific positions in male-dominated departments, stipends to aid women in associate professor positions to become full professors, and mentoring programmes for women who are in recruited and associate professor positions.
Kilden/Committee for Gender Balance and Diversity in Research and The Norwegian Association of Higher Education Institutions
Type of intervention
Training
Country
Norway
Source
DA
Brief Description
Established in 2004, the KIF Committee is focused on the improvement of gender balance at universities, university colleges and research institutes, and provides support and recommendations on measures contributing to gender balance and diversity in the Norwegian research sector. Among its priorities, the actions are focused on including gender perspectives in research, developing recruitment measures that encourage gender-balanced processes, fostering career- promoting measures with attention to how to lay a foundation for gender equality in academia, enhancing diversity in the sector and compiling measures targeted towards students in order to achieve a more gender-balanced student body.
Action Plan for: Equal Opportunities, Inclusion and Diversity 2016/2020 Host Institution
Host Institutions
University of Agder
Type of intervention
Positive Action / Direct Support
Country
Norway
Source
DA
Brief Description
Focusing on gender equal opportunities among staff members, the programme holds measures ranging from gender balance in all departments and positions, including in management roles, to equal salaries to both genders. By 2020, the goal of the action is to achieve at least 40% of each gender in all management groups at Faculty and department level. To this end, specific measures such as ensuring that both women and men are amongst the applicants for management positions, actively encouraging female department heads to apply to the dean trainee arrangement, are part of the actions.
"Women towards the Top-UiS in Movement and Balance" -Project
Host Institutions
University of Stavanger
Type of intervention
Positive Action / Direct Support
Country
Norway
Source
EURAXESS
Brief Description
The University of Stavanger had 45.2% women in associate professorships, but only 21.2% female professors at the beginning of 2015. Through “Women towards the top – UiS in movement and balance”, the university started a long-term commitment with a focus on awareness and accountability of the line management to increase the numbers of females in top research positions. This was the starting point for the University of Stavanger to implement a number of organisational and personal measures to improve its gender statistics, and especially focus on how the university could lift already employed female associated professor-to-professor level competency. It has been an important part of the project to include leaders, allocate funds to the selected groups of women participating in the project and to have this as part of the internal Leader development program to ensure these differences are top of mind in appraisal interview and when hiring. At the starting point of the project, the percentage of female professors was as low as 20 percent, three years later this number had increased to 35 percent. UiS continued to support the project after the 3-year project period with economic support from the Norwegian Research Council was over in 2018, the goal for the next period is to have 45 % female professors in 2022.
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Programme on Gender Balance in Senior Positions and Research Management (BALANSE)
Host Institutions
Research Council of Norway
Type of intervention
Positive Action / Direct Support
Country
Norway
Source
EURAXESS
Brief Description
The Programme on Gender Balance in Senior Positions and Research Management (BALANSE) is a policy-oriented programme at the Research Council with a ten-year programme period (2012–2022). The main objective of the programme is to promote gender equality and gender balance in Norwegian research.
The gender imbalance is a systemic challenge that the institutions cannot solve individually. The BALANSE programme provides incentives to institutions to take on greater responsibility for improving gender balance.
The programme seeks to promote gender equality and gender balance in Norwegian research, with particular focus on increasing the proportion of women in senior academic and research management positions, helping to bring about structural and cultural change in the research system to facilitate this.
BALANSE funding may be sought by universities, university colleges, research institutes, and research-intensive trade and industry. An example of a project implemented in the University of Stavanger with partial support of this funding programme can be found in the inspiring practice 13 above.
Action Plan for Improving the Gender Balance in Academic Positions
Host Institutions
Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
Type of intervention
Training
Country
Norway
Source
EURAXESS
Brief Description
The NHH Action Plan for gender balance bases itself on the need to integrate gender equality focus into the School’s core activities in research, teaching and dissemination. General objectives include: promoting an organisational culture and a working environment that is inclusive and fair for both genders; organising research, teaching and dissemination actions that are attractive to both men and women and gives employees of both genders equal opportunities; and implementing an active recruitment policy that equalises a skewed gender selection and prevents indirect discrimination. Measures such as ensuring the presence of women and men in lectures in all programmes and at all levels, using both genders in the media, balancing the composition of decision- making boards, councils and committees, and using the School’s salary policy as a means to achieve the targets for the recruitment of women make part of the plan.
Peer mentoring for women Principal Investigators (PIs): Women PIs of 3 different research Institutes meet 2-3 hours every 2 months for peer mentoring. They are guided by an expert in mentoring schemes.
Increasing the number of women in decision making bodies: Every year on when someone drops off from the International Scientific Committee (ISC), IBEC will propose the names of different women. 2 Women scientists have joined recently the ISC.
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Cátedra on Equal Gender
Host Institutions
University of Zaragoza
Type of intervention
Positive Action / Direct Support
Training
Country
Spain
Source
EURAXESS
Brief Description
Institutional & Enterprises Chairs (Cátedras) are a tool to stablish a permanent collaboration between the University of Zaragoza (UZ) and Enterprises and Organisations to obtain research, development and innovation results.
The Cátedra on Equal Gender UZ was created on 21/07/2007 in collaboration with the Aragonian Woman Institute (Aragon Government). Its teaching and education activities are aimed at university students but also at the teaching and administration staff. These are implemented mainly in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Employment and in the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature and include:
Master degree on Gender Equality
Courses:
Gender equality in at the Public Adminstration
Enterpreunership, leadership and equal gender on the 21st Century
Teaching Staff on equal gender
Workshops:
Feministstudies
Congresses:
On violence against women
On Work-life balance
On Maternity and professional environment
Prizes and contests:
Feminist research for equality
Publicity contest in recognition of responsibility and gender equality
Womenentrepreneurs
Regular conferences
A detailed list of recent activities can be found in the link provided (in Spanish).
The University of Copenhagen has an international work and study environment based on values such as democracy, openness and equal opportunities. The University is an inclusive workplace that wishes to attract the most talented students and staff regardless of personal background. The University is keen to create a tolerant culture where everyone is treated equally, and where diversity is a strength, not a challenge. Based on the University’s overall strategy, Talent and collaboration – Strategy 2023, the University puts focus on equality and diversity. The strategy focuses on ensuring that the University of Copenhagen can continue to attract, develop and retain scientific talents. The University wants to provide a diverse and inclusive working and study environment, where critical thinking and diversity go hand in hand. As part of this goal a “diversity officer” has been hired last year.
The plan includes a first review on the University’s gender balance focusing on students, researcher, and administrative staff. Then it underlines relevant actions to be implemented in order to systematically monitor the organisation.
These includes promoting pilot projects to push the women empowerment in research as well as the presentation of role model supporting the younger research in being involved on STEM activities. Last but not least, the use of Italian language has to be pushed to refer in both male and female the roles. Documents have to be revised and reconsidered to balance language use.
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Higher Education Leadership Programs for Women.HERS
Host Institutions
The School of Women and Gender Studies of Makerere University
Type of intervention
Training
Country
Uganda
Source
DA
Brief Description
The School of Women and Gender Studies of Makerere University has implemented short and long-term strategies with focus on gender equality to improve the representation of women in senior and management level positions in the higher education sector in the country.
Thinking in how gender is being treated in the construction of this new leadership, and how this can help to promote the changes in higher education organisations, the project suggests: a) affirmative action programmes that can help change the organisational culture of a university to one that encourages women’s participation; b) a specific Task Group that identifies and lobbies for the necessary required changes on gender equality; c) a colloquium of senior women managers in higher education, including training and support network for senior women and; d) networks for women in universities to help tackle gender inequalities through the offer of several opportunities that can benefit women from different sectors such as peer mentoring.
Kenyatta University has joint the UN Women’s HeForShe movement to address critical policy issues and look for changes in the course of leadership. Aligning with the existing priorities of the IMPACT Universities that compose the movement, Kenyatta University has contributed with a new global view and committed itself to achieving a gender-balanced leadership. Moreover, the University proposed itself to embed gender equality into the very DNA of the institution and to address gender-based violence across its campuses.
The Women Professors Forum (WPF), an association of around 140 female professors at the university, is an important forum that has made its voice heard on the campus on issues of gender equality. In the run-up to the last elections to the central university bodies, this network was very active in putting female candidates on the electoral lists. As a result, an average of 50% of all central bodies at the university are women. Half of all central bodies are chaired by a woman. Further information on the WPF can be found under the link below.
Gender equality in recruitment procedure for professors
Host Institutions
University of Bern
Type of intervention
Positive Action / Direct Support
Country
Switzerland
Source
EURAXESS
Brief Description
To increase the number of female professors, the University of Bern has implemented a number of measures for recruitment procedures of future professors:
Guidelines for Gender Equality in recruitment procedures (2019)
The Office for Gender Equality has produced a short film “female professors wanted”, which is shown in every commission to sensitise for gender equality issues and hidden bias.
A gender equality delegate of the Office of Gender Equality and a gender equality delegate of the faculty are present in every recruitment committee for professorships.
The University has developed guidelines on job-sharing for professors to foster job-sharing on the professorial level.
AKADEME targets women in middle and top management at University of the Basque Country, with the aim of improving leadership abilities and promoting its participation in a network of support among participants to motivate and enhance collective empowerment to access or stay in responsibility positions.
It is designs as a practical programme that combines:
Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda
Source
DA
Brief Description
Launched in 2011, the HELP programme sought to support research networks, policy forums and publications to document and provide an understanding of transformations underway with regard to the governance and leadership of higher education institutions in Africa. The works were developed through the implementation of policy debates, research groups, methodological workshops and conferences revolving around themes such as gender aspects of governance transformations, emergent practices in the working of governance bodies-councils, senates and faculty boards, and the role of Faculty/academics in the engagement in the leadership and academic processes at the institutions.
The Higher Education Resource Services-East Africa (HERS-EA) Academy
Host Institutions
The Higher Education Resource Services-East Africa (HERS-EA) Academy
Type of intervention
Positive Action / Direct Support
Country
East Africa (Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda)
Source
DA
Brief Description
HERS-EA is a sister organisation of HERS, providing leadership and management training for women in Higher Education Institutions in East Africa (Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda) through an intensive training that is specifically tailored to strengthen the knowledge and skills of women, enabling them to assume institutional leadership roles competitively. Through the implementation projects such as “Developing Effective Partnerships in Higher Education for Women” and “The Power of Mentoring”, the project addresses issues such as personal development, leadership, fundraising for research and publication, and institutional awareness.
HERS-SA is an independent Chapter of HERS dedicated to the advancement and leadership development of women in the higher education sector. It contributes to the career and leadership development of women employed in the higher education sector by maintaining a flow of information between women in higher education, circulating information about development opportunities, advocacy, gender research and jobs in higher education, facilitating networking between women in higher education institutions, supporting research collaborations into, and advocacy for, gender equity in higher education.
Aimed at empowering women and building a community among women trainees and those who support them, the GME (Graduate Medical Education) Women in Medicine Leadership Council – a subcommittee of the GME Diversity Committee – acts on projects focused on women in medicine (residents, fellows and faculty members). Precisely, it develops workshops on career trajectory, negotiation and unconscious bias. In addition, it provides resources to staff such as support to deal with harassment, child care, back-up care, lactation rooms, and maternity and paternity leave.
APA Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology - LIWP
Host Institutions
Stanford University – School of Medicine
Type of intervention
Mentoring
Training
Country
United States of America
Source
DA
Brief Description
Holding the goal of supporting and empowering women psychologists as leaders, the major focus of the institute is to ensure that leadership training opportunities are available for mid- career and senior women psychologists in all of their diversities. Its purpose is to provide women psychologists with the knowledge skills necessary to compete for leadership/senior management positions in academic, practice and other professional setting. Moreover, the institute pursues diversity amongst women psychologists in academia, practice and other leadership positions, creates networks of women psychologists in leadership/senior management positions in varied professional settings, and document the career movement, professional advancement and the perceived impact of the LIWP among participants.
Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU)
Type of intervention
Training
Country
United States of America
Source
DA
Brief Description
The action is a year-long programme targeted toward women leaders across the CCCU campuses. The programme provides participants with individually-tailored shadowing experience with a senior-level leader on another CCCU campus and professional networking with other current and emerging leaders. In addition, participants receive an introduction to cutting-edge leadership literature and research and a one-to-one meeting with a Resource Team member to outline a year-long Professional Development Plan.
American Association for Women in Community Colleges (AAWCC)
Type of intervention
Training
Country
United States of America
Source
DA
Brief Description
The LEADERS Institute is a five day experiential workshop that promotes the development of women’s leadership skills and qualities at every level in community college education and administration. The institute is designed to prepare women leaders for career opportunities, career advancement, and executive-level leadership positions, including the presidency.
The Association is aimed at advancing academic women’s career development from earliest stages to post-career, through advocacy and raising awareness of women’s issues in collaboration with other equity associations in the campus.
BRIDGES is an inclusive professional development programme to strengthen the leadership capabilities of women in the academia. It is designed to help women to identify, understand and build their leadership roles in the academy. To this end, the programme provides actions for women to develop insights into leadership, with a particular focus on the special skills and attributes women bring to their leadership roles, refine and improve their cross- cultural communication skills, among others. Through such actions, BRIDGE aims to explore the exercise of leadership capacities to their fullest, in order to transform institutions and fields of expertise and provide models for transforming the understanding of leadership in higher education.
The programme consists of a five-day residential programme of workshops and mentorship from the Centre for Higher Education Research and Development (CHERD) to enhance participant’s executive leadership potential. It is designed for early to mid-level academic leaders and is led by facilitators and a group of mentors who guide interactive sections.
Asian University for Women is an independent, regional institution dedicated to women’s education and leadership development which focuses on building network and supporting the empowerment of current and future women leaders through liberal arts and sciences education.
UGC Capacity Development workshops for women managers in HE
Host Institutions
The Department of Electrical Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia
Type of intervention
Training
Country
India
Source
DA
Brief Description
In 2006 the Department of Electrical Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, organised a UGC (University Grant Commission) workshop on Capacity Building of Women Managers in Higher Education and launched a programme for women in higher education in the academic and administrative stream that seeks to increase the percentage of women at decision-making levels in Indian universities and colleges. The program invites universities to nominate women at middle and high-level positions to undergo the programme.
The Institute’s 2015-2025 Strategic Plan includes as one its objectives “Promoting Women at the Institute”. This objective will be achieved by:
Promoting women in the fields of technology and design, while creating supportive frameworks for honors students, including designated study scholarships, supportive professional counseling during their studies, and female mentors who will guide the students during their studies.
Launching a review into how women are faring in different faculties, so as to discover special needs and find, as far as possible, institutional remedies for any problems that might be discovered.
Highlighting information relevant to women’s academic promotion, including information about scholarships and grants, events, rights, and more.
Seeking to secure gender balance among faculty members, by removing obstacles preventing women from promotion, if such are discovered.
Providing a satisfactory supportive environment for female faculty members and administrators, including scheduling special conferences, an online women’s forum, and more
Barcelona Institute of Science & Technology (BIST) and Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC)
Type of intervention
Positive Action / Direct Support
Country
Spain
Source
EURAXESS
Brief Description
BIST support women scientists who have the ambition and potential to reach a leading position in research and are fulfilling maternity responsibilities at the same time. This program aims to address the gap that exists between the number of women in the BIST Community who are research associates or senior post-doctoral researchers (41%) and the percentage of women who are group leaders (only 15%). The 10 Supporting grants and the coaching program recognize the value and excellent research done by these scientists and support them in their career transition.
The Women in Leadership at Otago Programme (WiLO) explores the qualities and skills associated with leadership and management for all women from all Otago campuses. To do so, the programme focuses on the context for leadership at the University of Otago, developing leadership skills and planning on-going professional development as a leader.
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