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"Gender
Budgeting as an Instrument for Managing Scientific Organisations to Promote
Equal Opportunities for Women and Men – With the Example of Universities"
is the new project realized by four partners: Frauenakademie München e.V.,
Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut München, Department of Economics / Institute
for Institutional and Heterodox Economics and Network East-West Women (NEWW)
-Poland.
Our SSA (SPECIFIC SUPPORT ACTION) aims at the development of tools/instruments
to implement gender budgeting as an important part of budget planning in
science. With the example of universities we want to extrapolate the findings
to contribute to a gender watch system.
In the SSA, three countries Austria, Germany and Poland, work closely together.
This allows a transnational as well as an interdisciplinary approach referring
to the methods used in the SSA as well as referring to the participants of the
team. As all countries are at a different level of organizational development
and at a different level of implementing gender mainstreaming and gender
budgeting in science the comparison will enable us to develop valid results.
In respect to the team there are experts from political science, economy,
sociology, humanities and engineering. With the interdisciplinarity of the team
we are able to look at our goal from various perspectives and have a broader
awareness for risks as well as chances in respect to gender budgeting in
science.
Due to our project objectives we will use qualitative and quantitative methods.
Among others there will be document analyses, expert interviews, participative
observations, communicative validations and statistical data analyses. With
these we will be able not only to understand the obvious but also the processes
which are fundamental if we want to find connecting points for gender budgeting
in science.
We will start our SSA with an analysis of the national frameworks at
universities, an analysis of the process of budget planning and an analysis of
the actual situation at one university in each country. On the basis of the
findings we will develop tools/instruments to adapt gender to the budgeting of
scientific organizations and formulate recommendations for gender budgeting in
science on national and EU level.
Principal
Objective
The main objective of the proposed project is to contribute
to the promotion of gender equality in science in the European Union by
developing gender budgeting instruments in science. The main focus of gender
budgeting is the transfer of gender mainstreaming to budget policy and to the
process of controlling budgets. The term gender budgeting is therefore in use
for discussing the effects of public budgets with respect to equal
opportunities for women and men (Gender Impact Analysis) and is also in use
with respect to a gender sensitive budgeting process. Even so the basic ideas
are widely known, operational instruments are hardly developed yet.
The proposed project will focus on universities for various reasons.
Universities play an important role in the research area because most research
in Europe is done at universities and most EU research funding goes to
universities. Since universities are in charge to educate the new generation of
academics they are particularly important to develop the human resources of
female academics to reach a gender balance. The national situation is also
reflected on EU level. Additionally, universities as public institutions have
to be examples for the private sector and have to account to national or
regional parliaments.
The analysis of the budgeting process in three different countries aims at the
question of how the budgeting process works in scientific organisations. After
a comparison of the process in all three countries we will be able to answer
the question in which part or parts of the process gender budgeting must be
implemented to achieve a gender responsive budgeting in universities.
Website of the
project:
www.frauenakademie.de
NEWW
Project Coordinators:
Zofia
Łapniewska: zofia@neww.org.pl
Małgorzata
Tarasiewicz: tarasiewicz@neww.org.pl
Coordinator
and partners of the project:
»Frauenakademie München e.V.
»SIM Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut München
»The Network of East West-Women - Polska
»Vienna University of Economics and
Business Administration
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