LIBRA Workshop “Best Practice in Gender-Inclusive Recruitment Processes”
On January 26, 2017, a LIBRA Workshop on “Best Practice in Gender-Inclusive Recruitment Processes” with representatives of the partner institutes took place at CeMM in Vienna. It provided expert insights into the topic of unbiased recruitment with the goal to start discussions on best practices, and to define recommendations to remove gender barriers in hiring processes at the LIBRA partner institutes, especially for leading positions.
LIBRA is an EC funded project which brings together ten research institutes in life sciences in ten European countries. They all are members of the alliance EU-LIFE, which aims to build and promote excellence in life sciences throughout Europe. Their commitment to excellence is also a commitment to diversity and gender equality. CeMM in collaboration with the Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine Berlin coordinates LIBRA's centralised activities to recruit without gender bias including the dissemination of gained knowledge. Additional topics within LIBRA focus on career development and training, work-life balance, and sex and gender dimensions of research.
We are grateful to our guest speakers who shared their expertise with us on why diversity matters, how job advertisements can make a difference, and what to consider to make a fair assessment of candidates possible.
Anna Beninger, Director, Research at Catalyst Inc., USA
Saher Ahmed, Athena SWAN Project Manager, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
Eva Lübke, Project Manager at the Chair of Econometrics at the University of Mannheim, Germany
We would also like to thank Petra Unger for a very interesting guided tour “Female Traces” through the first district of Vienna the evening before the workshop started. It reminded us that history was made by both women and men alike, although it is hard to find memorials or texts in history books commemorating women.
Reference:
Gaucher D et al. Evidence that gendered wording in job advertisements exists and sustains gender inequality, J Pers Soc Psychol., doi: 10.1037/a0022530
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