EQUALITY GUIdE - KU Leuven

Chapter 2 ! Career paths: recruitment ! promotion ! dismissal 105
! Preparation: to what extent do certain positions appeal to men and women (a number
of vacancies may be presented to a group of students)?
! Selection: who (men/women) applies for a vacant position, who is considered during
the selection procedure, who is finally appointed?
! Procedure: how and by whom are the interviews prepared, how are people interviewed,
who leads them, who is present at the interviews, how is the interview committee
selected?
! Procedure: are there any other selection assignments apart from the interview (such
as a trial lesson, the presentation of a potential research project, an exam), to what
extent do female and male applicants succeed in the extra assignments?
! Screening of the application reports: is attention paid to a gender-neutral phrasing,
is the same standard used for male and female candidates?
! The internal selection policy of the Flemish government provides a questionnaire
that gives applicants the opportunity to give feedback on the application, the selection
and the selection committee’s decisions 117 . To offer more insight in the applicants’
experience, this procedure could also be introduced in the personnel policy
at Ghent University and other universities.
For each of these features, recommendations could be formulated, thus creating a
renewed general approach to the selection and recruitment of university staff on the
one hand, and to the training of the members of several selection committees on the
other.
3.5.3. Transferability to other organizations and settings
Guidelines for a gender neutral vacancy policy are already used in many organizations
and universities in Flanders as well as in other countries. The checklist presented in this
chapter can be used in other universities, organizations, firms and countries provided
that the working definitions are adjusted. The checklist can be expanded or limited
according to the wishes of the organisations in question.
4. Through-flow: promotion of women
Hanneke Pyck
4.1. Introduction
In this part we discuss the development and the results of the survey parts ‘promotion’
and ‘statements about UGent staff members’, which are parts of the Survey UGender.
117 Policy report, Personnel policy of the Flemish government (2005), p. 61.