On this page you will find the decisions, resolutions and positions on topics concerning higher education policies passed by the Committee of Women’s and Gender Studies Institutions in the German-speaking Areas.
At the 4th Workshop of Women’s and Gender Studies in German-speaking Areas,
taking place 30 June – 01 July, 2006 in Frankfurt/Main, a resolution was passed
unanimously and sent to the German Chancellor Ms Merkel, the German Minister
for Science, Ms Schavan, the German Ministry for Education and Research, the
German Federal Government, the 16 German state Governments, the Federal Committee
of Women’s Representatives (BuKoF), the German Science Council, the German
Rectors’ Conference (HRK), the Bund-Länder Commission for Educational Planning
and Research Promotion and the German Ministers of Culture and Education Conference
(KMK). The resolution requests the named institutions to make a special effort
to launch a new programme that secures equality of opportunity for women in
Science and Academia with the support of the federal government, beginning
in 2007. To that effect, the German states and universities are asked to provide
funding for the development of Women’s and Gender Studies institutions and
centres and to guarantee the achievement of this cross-sectionary task by
anchoring gender equality in aims-and-objectives agreements. The entire text
of the resolution can be found here
(German).