… PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY IN RESEARCH Legal framework Spain’s legal … awarding financial grants, in order to eliminate genderbias, barriers and gaps. Provisions also seek to achieve … engineering, architecture, science and technology. Genderstereotypes mean that UPC has a low percentage of women …
… PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY IN RESEARCH Legal framework In Sweden, the … moderate preferential treatment of the underrepresented gender when hiring, provided it promotes gender equality and … is composed in a gender-equal way, trained in genderbias, and knows how to assess the relevance of gender to the …
… Tools and resources Ready, steady, go! Having set up the gender equality plan (GEP) (see step 3 ), you are ready to … success and institutionalisation. As highlighted in the ‘Gender equality network in the European research area’ … gender equality, (2) raise awareness of gender biases and stereotypes in everyday communication and (3) introduce a …
… project. The GEP is a step forward in the institutional gender equality framework of the CEU and covers objectives in eight gender equality priority areas: (1) gender equality in CEU’s … transfer and research, (5) sexism, gender biases and stereotypes and (6) sexual harassment. Two priorities aim at …
… Does Artificial Intelligence help or hinder the fight for gender equality? EIGE’s Director Carlien Scheele delved … AI is female, a future which will be devoid of unconscious bias, a future where all voices are heard equally. In this … mathematics at school. They are often deterred by genderstereotypes. The women who do make it to university face …
… of the conference Women's economic empowerment: key to gender equality hosted by the French European Union Council … care of children and people’s homes can help chip away at stereotypes about women’s and men’s work, and of how much it … shows promise when it comes to minimising the risk of bias and discrimination in AI. I also welcome the …
… New evidence from the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) shows that artificial intelligence and … on both. This is our opportunity to edit out the age-old stereotypes, sexism and discrimination of the labour market, … leaving the industry. Algorithms can also replicate bias and discrimination from the ‘real world’. One example is …
… The EU’s founding treaty includes a commitment to end the gender pay gap. Since 1957, we’ve been signed up to the … Behind all these factors lies the same reason: genderstereotypes and beliefs around who should do what job, and … just more equal than others’. How to clear all this bias out of our labour market? Pay transparency legislation …
… The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) has published a handbook to help stop … discrimination, for example when they don’t conform to stereotypes by asking for help or showing empathy. EIGE’s handbook shows how unconscious bias underpins the unequal way women and men are treated at …
… You can test your own biases with the Harvard Implicit Bias Test, developed by the University of Harvard: Take the … diversity and took several measures to officially support gender balance, the promotion gap between women and men … ensure you avoid language and images that include genderstereotypes (e.g. women serving coffee or taking notes). Tip! …
… engineering and mathematics [1] . Such horizontal gender segregation is partly responsible for the gender pay … used to be dominated by modestly paid women Genderstereotypes linked to the value of work are partly to blame, … this attribute. The impact of evaluators’ unconscious bias in this study was lower selection ratings and …
… Definition: genderstereotypes Preconceived ideas whereby females and males are … The determination to create rules results in confirmation bias , where information that fits in with preconceived ideas …
… harassment [3][4] . Less than half of EU citizens believe gender equality has been achieved at work. Source: … organisational change to combat deeply entrenched genderstereotypes and unconscious bias, these efforts can be undermined. The Council of Europe …
… organisation? Have you and your team taken unconscious bias training? Have you adjusted your internal and external communication to remove genderstereotypes? Do you try to maintain gender balance when …
… about women and men, which manifest themselves as genderstereotypes , can rank one gender as superior to another. … it can be unconscious, manifesting itself as unconscious bias . Sexism can touch everyone, but women are particularly …
… recent policy actions at EU and Member State levels, the gender pay gap persists. In 2018, on average, women’s gross … sectoral segregation, part-time or temporary work, genderstereotypes and norms, difficulties in reconciling work and … be reduced to individual behaviour. There is a structural bias in the gender division of unpaid work and care …
… Progress towards gender equality in the EU remains slow. The Gender Equality … remain strongly embedded in pre-existing genderstereotypes and biases. Too few women are engaged in … 2020c). The EU has recognised that fighting genderbias and opening up new jobs for women in high-technology …
… has changed – creating both opportunities for and risks to gender equality. However, academic, public and policy debates on the digital future of work have often adopted gender-neutral perspectives that fail to address the central role of digitalisation in transforming gender relations in positive and negative ways (Scheele, …
… Main findings The overall Gender Equality Index score for the EU in 2018 is … every 2 years – it will take more than 60 years to achieve gender equality in the EU. The gender balance in … assessment of potential risks, such as algorithmic genderbias and discrimination. The lack of gender diversity in the …