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Gender Equality Action Plan for the Academy Gender Equality Action Plan for the Academy acatech (Ed.) Gender Equality Action Plan for the Academy acatech (Ed.) Contents 1 Objectives 5 2 Review of the current situation 6 2.1 acatech’s structure and working methods 6 2.2 Women in the Academy 6 2.3 Women in the Executive Board 8 3 acatech’s gender equality goals and evaluation schedule 9 4 Measures 10 4.1 Measures to increase the percentage of women in the Academy 10 4.2 Incorporating the gender dimension into policy advice 11 4.3 Overview of the Academy’s gender equality measures up to 2020 11 Appendix 12 Table 1 Students in Germany, winter semester 2016/2017 12 Table 2 Women obtaining PhDs in the engineering sciences 13 Table 3 Project groups 14 1 Objectives of female professors in the STEM subjects and other innova- 1 Objectives tion-oriented research fields. Since acatech wishes to act as a role model within the technological science community, it is particularly committed to increasing the number of women in In the updated version of the “Principles for Gender Equality at prominent positions and ensuring their visibility. acatech” which was presented to the Joint Science Conference (GWK) in 2018, acatech establishes the goal of equal treatment acatech’s guidelines commit the Academy to the highest standards of women and men. This goal is based on the need to comply in its provision of advice to policymakers and society. It seeks to with federal and regional gender equality legislation, as well as provide advice that is science-based, independent, non-political the conviction that in order to provide policymakers and society party-specific and in the public interest. Advice for policymakers with advice that is in the public interest, it is necessary to consider and society that is in the public interest must be sensitive to as broad and balanced a range of perspectives as possible. Ac- the different circumstances and needs encountered by women cordingly, it is hoped that the measures set out in this document and men in some aspects of their everyday lives. This needs to will help put an end to the existing inequalities as soon as be considered when selecting the topics on which the Academy possible and leverage the potential of mixed-gender bodies to provides advice, in the development of the content and in the ensure the continued excellence of the Academy’s work and presentation of the results, and is absolutely key to fully lever- advice going forward. aging the potential for innovation. acatech’s structure and working methods as a science-focused, In order to identify and prioritise targeted measures for increasing but not strictly scientific organisation mean that the cascade the representation of women, Section 2 expands on the review of model cannot be directly applied. The reason for this is that, in- the current situation presented in the 2017 GWK report,1 focusing stead of being divided into distinct disciplines, the Academy’s on acatech’s particular structure and working methods. Various work focuses on themes that are addressed on an interdisciplinary ways in which the proportion of women at acatech might be in- basis. creased are proposed. Section 3 describes the evaluation schedule and sets out acatech’s targets for gender equality. Section 4 iden- acatech is committed to bringing the percentage of women tifies concrete measures and sets out interim goals based on the among the Academy’s members into line with the proportion proposed approach. 1 | See acatech (Ed.): Monitoring-Bericht 2017 (Gemäß § 3 Abs. 3 Wiss FG), München 2017. 5 2 Review of the current acatech Members, freed from duties (aged >72: 165) situation Women = 5 / 3 % 2.1 acatech’s structure and Men = 160 working methods acatech sees itself as a flexible working academy, comprising a acatech Members (aged 60–72: 185) network of members from the scientific and business communities. It is composed of various bodies, each with their own structure: Women = 14 / 7,5 % Executive Board, Board of Trustees, General Assembly, Senate and acatech Office. The mission of the Academy as a whole is to add value for citizens by providing policymakers and society with independent advice that is in the public interest, promoting co- Men = 171 operation between science and industry, representing the tech- nological sciences at home and abroad, and fostering young tal- ents in the STEM subjects. A broad spectrum of different per- acatech Members (aged 50–60: 111) spectives is key to the provision of balanced advice, and acatech has followed this principle in the composition of its project groups Women = 26 / 23,5 % and networks ever since it was founded. The first pillar of the Academy comprises the scientific Members, who are invited to join acatech because of their outstanding scientific achievements and high professional reputation. They are drawn from the fields Men = 85 of engineering, the natural sciences and medicine, as well as re- lated fields in the humanities and social sciences. New members acatech Members (aged < 50: 33) are invited to join acatech with the specific aim of bringing new ideas and perspectives to the Academy. The second pillar of the Academy is the Senate, whose members are leading figures from Women = 15 / 45,5 % technology companies and organisations, as well as the major science organisations. acatech’s Members and Senate work on an unpaid basis through thematic networks and project groups. Men = 18 Meanwhile, different stakeholders from civil society are repre- sented on the Academy’s management and supervisory bodies (the Executive Board and Board of Trustees). Fig. 1: Percentage of women among acatech Members by age group (December 2017) 2.2 Women in the Academy neering sciences (12.1 %) is even greater (Federal Statistical Office data, 2018). The overall proportion of women among the As of December 2017, women made up 12 % of all of acatech’s Academy’s not freed from duties, ordinary Members is 16.7 %. Members. However, the percentage of women varies strongly If the overall representation of women among the Academy’s or- across the different age groups (Fig. 1). The proportion of women dinary Members is to be strengthened, it will be necessary to fur- in the over-72 age group was just 3 % in 2017. However, with ther increase the number of women that are elected to become 45.5 %, this number was much higher for the under-50s, which acatech Members among the younger cohorts of under 50- and is the youngest and smallest group of acatech’s Members. While 50- to 60-year-olds. this figure is already much higher than the overall percentage of female professors in Germany (23.4 % in 2016), the difference acatech’s Members carry out the Academy’s work on an unpaid compared to the percentage of female professors in the engi- basis through thematic networks and working groups. Only one 6 Review of the current situation of these 14 groups is chaired by a woman, which is equivalent to tion of women in the working group is 33.3 %, one would expect 7.1 %. The percentage of women in the different working groups this figure to be higher given that women account for 45 % of varies significantly. The working groups where women are best both healthcare technology and medical informatics students. represented are the Education group (50 %), the Healthcare Tech- nologies group (33.3 %) and the Technology Communication The thematic networks and working groups establish project group (25 %) (Fig. 2). The groups with the lowest percentages of groups in which the Academy’s Members collaborate on an unpaid women are Energy and Resources (7.6 %), Product Development basis with external experts from science and industry. The female and Production (11.1 %) and Materials Science and Engineering scientists elected to the Academy show a level of engagement (11.9 %). However, the latest Federal Statistical Office data for that is disproportionately high if we consider that just 16.7 % of the whole of Germany (see Table 1 in the Appendix) indicates acatech’s active Members (i.e. those under the age of 72) are that the low percentage of women in the Product Development women. They play an active role both in the working groups and and Production group is simply a reflection of the low proportion as experts but are not well represented among the chairs of the of women currently studying the relevant subjects. On the other working groups and thematic networks (see Table 3 in the Ap- hand, while women account for 33.1 % of PhDs in the field of pendix, which shows the percentages of women who chair project Materials Science and Engineering (see Table 2 in the Appendix), groups, are members of the groups or collaborate as experts. The the percentage of women in the corresponding acatech thematic figures refer to all ongoing projects, as well as projects that con- network is much lower. Women are particularly underrepresented cluded with a publication in 2017). Increasing the visibility of in the Energy and Resources group, since they account for 20 % those women who are already involved by giving them more of all students in the field of renewable energy and 35 % in the leadership roles could help to encourage more women to volunteer field of environmental technology (see Table 1 in the Appendix). their services for acatech’s work. The same applies to Healthcare Technologies – while the propor- Thematic networks and working groups No. participants No. women % women 2017 TN Mobility, Logistics and Aerospace Engineering 33 4 12,10 % TN Healthcare Technologies 27 9 33,30 % TN Biotechnology and Bioeconomy 39 6 15,40 % TN Energy and Resources 92 7 7,60 % TN Information and Communication Technology 74 14 18,90 % TN Nanotechnology 32 3 19,40 % TN Materials Science and Engineering 42 5 11,90 % TN Product Development and Production 72 8 11,10 % TN Safety and Security 18 3 16,70 % TN Society and Technology 169 29 17,20 % WG Education 8 4 50,00 % WG Basic Questions in Science and Engineering 14 2 14,30 % WG Economics and Innovation Research 16 3 18,80 % WG Technology Communication 12 3 25,00 % Total 648 100 15,43 % Fig.
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