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The online questionnaire was created and distributed with the tool from Checkmarket
122 .
4.3.2.2. Creation of the Survey UGender
The survey was created in the period May 2005 ! March 2006. After consultation of
existing (gender) questionnaires and literature on the subject, a first version of the survey
was developed 123 . In May the draft was presented to the interfaculty UGender
Steering Committee (see text box). Since the steering committee had a lot of remarks
and questions, a selection of steering committee members 124 assembled several times
and guided the development process of the UGender Survey.
Steering Committee UGender: members and tasks
The UGender Steering Committee was installed at the start of the UGender project. The Vice-
Chancellor sent a letter to all deans of UGent asking them to nominate a f/m faculty board
duo. This was done to make sure men as well as women would be involved in the initiation of
an equal opportunities policy.
The members of the Steering Committee UGender are:
! Faculty representatives: two representatives from each faculty (each time a man and a
woman from the faculty board, at least one of whom is a professor);
! Central Administration representatives: the Academic Administrator and a member of staff
of the Vice-Chancellor’s office;
! Centre for Gender Studies representatives.
The Steering Committee UGender guided and advised the initiation of an equal opportunities
policy at UGent. The faculty representatives are co-responsible for the development, stimulation
and support of an equal opportunities policy at the UGent faculties 125 .
By the end of 2005, a new version of the Survey UGender was ready. A group of the
Steering Committee decided to test this online survey within a small group of people.
Each member asked five UGent staff members to collaborate in an online survey about
their career at Ghent University. It was important to address a representative group:
men, women, academic staff members (professors, post-doc researchers, assistants and
pre-doctoral fellows), administrative and technical staff members, staff members from
different faculties, staff from the central administration, staff members with children,
staff members without children, younger and older members of staff. 33 of the 38 staff
members who were asked to participate in this test phase filled out the online survey.
122 www.checkmarket.be.
123 For an overview of the references that were an important source of information for the creation of the
Survey UGender, see References.
124 The ‘working group Survey UGender’ consisted of H. Pyck and S. Lievens (Centre for Genderstudies),
prof. dr. M. Demoor (LW), dr. M.C. Van de Velde (IBBT), prof. dr. A. Aelterman (PP), T. Maes (PS ),
prof. dr. P. Bracke (PS) and prof. dr. J. De Maeseneer (GE).
125 For more information about the current members, see: http://www.cgs.ugent.be/UGender/stuurgroep (in
Dutch).