Tasks and goals

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As the Women's and Equal Opportunities Officer of Faculty 01, we support the Equal Opportunities Office and the University of Kassel in implementing the gender equality mandate. In addition to our committee work at departmental level, we are members of other university committees or associations that deal with gender and diversity issues. We take part in meetings of the Women's Council, have advisory membership of the Faculty Council and appointment committees, are consulted on recruitment procedures and have the right "to be involved at an early stage in all personnel, organizational and social measures that affect the equality of women and men and the compatibility of family and career" (ยง 17, HGlG).

Recruitment and appointment procedures

We have a particularly important task in the context of recruitment and appointment procedures. Although we have no voting rights in appointment and personnel matters, we report on the progress of appointment procedures to the Equal Opportunities Office, document irregularities and provide signatures for recruitment applications. We must be involved as early as possible - in the case of appointment procedures even before the advertisement and before the composition of the appointment committee. Dates for interviews and appointment committees must also be coordinated with us with the necessary lead time.

Contact persons for gender equality and discrimination issues

We see ourselves as a point of contact for members of all status groups in matters of equality and discrimination and can be contacted at any time in cases of sexualized harassment and sexualized violence, bullying, questions about the compatibility of work/study and family or conflicts at work or study. We have a duty of confidentiality and will therefore treat all inquiries submitted to us confidentially and will not take any steps without the consent of the person concerned.

Our aim is to make gender and diversity issues more visible in the department, to initiate research on the basis of which gender equality work can be advanced in a targeted manner and to network different status groups by working together on gender equality and diversity issues. To this end, we initiate cross-status group meetings, use the department's funds to award teaching assignments that address equality and gender issues and use relief funds that are available to us to research the gender equality situation in the department. A particular concern of ours is to raise awareness of equality, gender and diversity issues in the day-to-day work of the department - in studies, teaching, administration and research.