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ISBN 9788854970168 2 INDEX INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................. 4 PARALLEL SESSION 1 STRUCTURAL CHANGE: GENDER EQUALITY PLANS AND EFFORTS ....... 8 PARALLEL SESSION 2 THE INCLUSION OF THE SEX/GENDER VARIABLES IN RESEARCH: MAINSTREAMING DIVERSITIES IN AGRO-FOOD RESEARCH ................. 41 GENDER IN SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES .................................. 68 ECONOMICS, BUSINESS AND FINANCE .................................................. 101 DESIGN AND ENGINEERING ....................................................................... 129 GENDER-INCLUSIVE MATERIAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING .......... 138 GENDER AND (MENTAL) HEALTH ............................................................. 156 PARALLEL SESSION 3 THE INCLUSION OF THE SEX/GENDER VARIABLES AND OF GENDER EQUALITY ISSUES IN TEACHING CURRICULA ........................................... 161 PARALLEL SESSION 4 MEASURING GENDER EQUALITY IN ORGANISATIONS: INDICATORS AND MONITORING TOOLS ..................................................................................... 173 3 INTRODUCTION Tullia Gallina Toschi, Angela Balzano, Francesca Crivellaro University of Bologna This E-book is a result of the H2020 PLOTINA project1 Final Conference, ReGendering Science. For an inclusive research environment, held in the Università di Bologna (27th-28th of January 2020, https://www.plotina.eu/plotina-final-conference/). It includes the abstracts selected thanks to the call for abstracts that the Consortium – in collaboration with scholars from different European institutions2 – launched in October 2019. Consistently with the European Research Area (ERA) key priorities on gender equality, the PLOTINA Project aimed at identifying and addressing the obstacles hampering gender equality in Research Performing Organizations (RPOs). Specifically, PLOTINA aimed at removing barriers to recruitment, retention and career progression of female researchers, addressing gender imbalances in decision making and strengthening the gender dimension in research. These are the key challenges to be addressed, in order to end the waste of talent that Europe cannot afford, and to diversify the views and methodologies, so as to increase the quality, the methodological accuracy and relevance of research. PLOTINA addressed these challenges by supporting a process of sustainable, integrated and systemic structural change in RPOs and by fostering excellence and the social value of research and innovation. In particular, the project was structured around three main objectives: preventing underutilization of qualified female researchers, by removing barriers to recruitment, retention and career progression, allowing the EU to benefit from the talent of all its researchers, thus elevating its international competitiveness; improving decision making by addressing gender imbalances to meet new opportunities for scientific innovation, excellence and productivity; incorporating the sex/gender dimension in research, when applicable, especially in the STEM disciplines where it is traditionally not applied. In order to address these objectives, the project workplan was centred around the elaboration, implementation and monitoring of self-tailored Gender Equality Plans (GEPs) in the RPOs involved (five Universities and one Research Centre). The main tools elaborated within the Project framework, such as the Formative Toolkit (a step by step guide facilitating the process of GEPs elaboration and implementation), the Library of Actions (containing the actions 1 PLOTINA (Promoting gender balance and Inclusion in Research Innovation and Training, G.A. 666008) is an H2020 Project, started in February 2016 and concluded in January 2020. PLOTINA Consortium, under the coordination of the University of Bologna, brought together five Universities (University of Bologna, Italy; University of Warwick, United Kingdom; Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Portugal; Mondragon University, Spain; Özyeğin University, Turkey), one research centre (National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia), three professional associations (Centro Studi Progetto Donna e Diversity MGMT, Italy; Elhuyar-Zubize SLU, Spain, Elhuyar KOM, Spain), one not for-profit research organisation (Centre for Social Innovation, Austria). 2 The elaboration of the call and the selection of the proposals received was carried out by academics from the PLOTINA Consortium and experts from different universities and research centres (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy; University of Florence, Italy; University of Bergamo, Italy; Department for General Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Wunstorf Clinic, Hannover Region Clinics, Germany). 4 implemented in the GEP by each RPO and a detailed description of best practices) are available in a downloadable format on the PLOTINA website (https://www.plotina.eu/). As a Coordination and Support Action, PLOTINA could not fund research activities. Nevertheless, one of its main goals was to integrate the gender dimension into the design, evaluation and implementation of research, so as to enhance its quality and relevance and to foster both excellence and the social value of innovations. To this end, PLOTINA RPOs decided to dedicate a full workpackage (WP4) to the development and the spreading of a more gender aware-science. The end goal of WP4 (Implementing GEPs: Gender-aware science) was to develop a Library of Actions, addressing the whole process of scientific knowledge-making, from teaching to research to innovation, devoted to: 1) spreading in the RPOs’ settings a gender/sex aware approach; 2) enhancing commitment of female scientists: i) as evaluators of research (editors, referees) and ii) as producers of knowledge (researchers/principal investigators) in considering gender/sex analysis in scientific research and publications; 3) including gender/sex approaches in the background of the next generation of researchers by targeting different individuals (BA students, MA students, PhD scholars, senior researchers and research groups, publishers, referees and editors; high-level research management in charge for the internal allocation of research funding within RPOs). Several public deliverables are available on the PLOTINA website; we sincerely hope that they will facilitate the work of other RPOs. For instance, the deliverable Publication of a collection of short briefs from the gender-aware research and teaching Case studies provided as part of the PLOTINA Library (D.2) includes all the case studies realized by PLOTINA RPOs. The PLOTINA case studies cover many different disciplinary fields, nevertheless they all aim at the integration of the sex and gender dimensions in research3 and they represent an additional spark and some practical exercises in this direction. For the PLOTINA Consortium, the project Final Conference was an opportunity to further commit in the promotion of the integration of sex and gender in research and to foster the debate on those issues that were core to the project. PLOTINA commitment for the integration of sex and gender in research is mirrored by the Final Conference Program. ReGendering Science. For an inclusive research environment4 allowed the possibility for scholars, students, policy makers and representatives from NGOs to contribute to 4 topics (see Figure 1) and to share case studies, experiences and best practices in the parallel sessions. 3 The term ‘gender dimension’ was developed within the European Commission and means integrating sex and/or gender variables and analysis into research. According to Gendered Innovations (European Commission, 2013b), ‘sex’ refers to the basic biological characteristics of females and males, while ‘gender’ refers to cultural attitudes that shape ‘feminine’ and ‘masculine’ behaviours, products, technologies, environments and knowledge. See also the PLOTINA Lexicon (https://plotina.eu/plotina-lexicon). 4 https://www.plotina.eu/plotina-final-conference/ 5 Figure 1. PLOTINA Final Conference Call for Contributions The second parallel session, in particular, was fully devoted to the inclusion of sex/gender variables in research and it was articulated in the following six disciplinary parallel sub-sessions: Mainstreaming diversities in agro-food research Gender in social sciences and humanities Economics, Business and Finance Design and Engineering Gender-inclusive material sciences and engineering Gender and (mental) health
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