Gender Equality Plan / What to consider during your project

Research

Gender phase

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research teams: equal opportunities in research

• When hiring new staff members, please take into consideration gender balance/equality in your team at all levels.
• Do working conditions allow all members of staff to combine work and family life in a satisfactory manner?
• Are there mechanisms in place to manage and monitor gender equality aspects in your research team, e.g., workforce statistics?

Gender in research content

• Is sex/gender disaggregated data collected and analysed throughout the research cycle
  and included in publications as well as project reports?
• If there are further aspects of the project in which sex/gender could be a factor (e.g., samples, testing groups), are these gender-balanced?
  
 
• Are questionnaires, surveys, focus groups, etc. designed togender-sensitive unravelmanner?
potentially relevant sex and/or gender differences in your data?
   
• Is data analysed according to the sex variable? Are other relevant variables analysed with respect to sex?

Gender in communication

• Please use gendered writing styles in German and English
• Please be aware of gender bias in communication and aim for unbiased communication, e.g., presenting pictures of the whole project team rather than just the PI.