CALL FOR ACTION!
It's time to act: #GrowingEquality
Wear the SAGE Pin and endorse the SAGE charter of principles for Gender Equality.
Gender equality is fundamental to our democracies and central to our higher
education and research systems. Evidence shows that research performance is
limited by persistent inequalities, and this negatively impacts innovation and
society at large.
- Women occupy only 20% of the governance seats of
universities, contributing to a lack of female role models in the top level
positions.
- Women account for 47% of PhD graduates in Europe but they
gradually disappear from the academic career track.
- Women researchers tend to hold more part-time positions
and/or to have more “precarious” working contracts than men.
- Gender dimension is often overlooked in the research cycle
which leads to the formulation of bias and/or inadequate policies, programs,
theories, and outcomes.
Source:
European Commission and Directorate-General for Research and Innovation. 2016.
She Figures 2015
Luxembourg.
Wearing the SAGE Pin and endorsing the SAGE Charter of Principles for Gender
Equality means supporting structural, cultural and political change to eradicate
such inequalities in research and higher education, and enhance both excellence
and equity within our systems.
Take action across all twelve Principles and demonsrate your commitment to:
- Improving gender balance at all levels of academic careers,
in institutional governance and decision making positions, and among public and
highly visible roles and functions;
- Implementing Human Resources practices that attract and
promote the best talents in all their diversity that do not discriminate on the
basis of gender or other grounds;
- Eliminating the gender pay gap;
- Seeking diversity and gender equality in research opportunities and funding;
- Achieving gender balance and fairness in evaluation panels
for grants, institutional and research projects;
- Mainstreaming gender equality awareness and best practice
in the daily operations of our institutions;
- Embedding gender equality and diversity in the strategy
statements of our institutions;
- Promoting family-friendly policies and work-life balance;
- Advancing gender studies across the disciplines to produce
knowledge that fosters cultural, social and political change in gender norms
- Sharing knowledge about gender equality and diversity
across our institutions and embedding gender equality and diversity in the
training of academic and professional staff;
- Incorporating gender-sensitive practices, processes
and procedures in research, while addressing barriers to equal participation of
all genders in research and decision making;
- Eradicating bullying, sexual and moral harassment from our institutions.
Download the
SAGE Charter of Principles
Download the
SAGE Charter Poster
Download the
SAGE Pin Flyer
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