The UAB creates a list of good practices in gender perspective at European universities
18/07/2017
In the case of good practices applied to the gender perspective in teaching, the entity responsible for the selection of criteria was SKU-Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, which compiled a total of 24 gender perspective subjects from the seven universities participating in the project.
The UAB was the one to provides the most amount of good practices, a total of seven, among which are the Minor in Gender Studies which includes 21 subjects from different teaching centres and is offered to all students; the subject in Musics, Identity and Gender, from the degree in Musicology; and the course in Gender and Reproductive Health, from the UAB-specific master’s degree in International Health and Cooperation.
Other good practices at the UAB are the subject in Philosophy and Gender, at the Faculty of Humanities and Arts; the programmes in Communication and Gender (bachelor’s and master’s degrees) at the Faculty of Communication Studies; and the introduction to gender perspective included in the History of Social Law and Labour Institutions subject of the degree in Industrial Relations.
The other universities participating in the EGERA project offer innovating subjects such as the one in medical sciences Gender, Sexuality and Multiculturalism at Radboud University, the Netherlands; Gender and Technology at the Middle East Technical University, Turkey; and Sex, Gender and War at Science Po, France. The complete document on good practices can be downloaded here.
The UAB offers a total of 30 gender-specific subjects in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes (2015/16), and an even larger number of subjects include gender-specific contents.
The Observatory for Equality and the EGERA project have created a Guide for the Incorporation of Gender Perspective in Academia in order to help implement one of the measures stated in the Third Action Plan for the Equality between Women and Men at the UAB. It is also useful to help incorporate gender perspective within the study plans, and this will be taken into account in future evaluations.
The observatory organises courses in gender perspective in research and academia for teaching staff, administration and services staff and PhD students, with the support of the Academic Quality Office, the PAS Training Unit and the Research Area.
Good Practices in Research
The UAB was responsible for gathering cases of good practices in gender-sensitive research: the projects they represented, their context and discipline, advances or innovations in the incorporation of gender perspective in research, both in research contents and in gender equality within research groups.
The good practices selected at the UAB for the EGERA project were:
- The Aequalis project by the UAB Health and Ageing Foundation.
- The Epogender project by the URV and the UAB Faculty of Law.
- Men in Care by the URV/UAB (AFIN Group, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology)
- Religion and Media Consumption in Post-Migratory Contexts by InCOM-UAB.
- Rights on the Move: Rainbow Families in Europe, coordinated by Trento University with the participation of the UAB, through its Faculty of Law.
- Salary Breach as a Multidimensional Phenomenon by the Sociological Research Centre on Everyday Life and Work (QUIT), UAB.
- The Role of Women in Prime Time Talk Shows and Night Shows by the UAB Image, Sound and Synthesis Research Group.
Some of the good practices existing at other universities and included in the project are the Design and Use of Gender Specific and Gender Stereotypical Toys by SKU-Radboud University Nijmegen and the policies of equality of Ankara University, which has designed a measure to confer additional credits and points onto those promoting research into social and gender inequalities.
The full document can be viewed at this link.