EQUALITY GUIdE - KU Leuven

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Good Practice Mainstreaming Promoters: participation
In the ‘Tweede Gelijke Kansenrapport’ 187 scissor diagrams were generated for all faculties. For the
Faculty of Science the scissor diagram showed that the largest drop-out of female academics was
to be found in the promotion from post-doctoral researcher to Assistant Professor. More detailed
information was asked by the Mainstreaming Promoters from the Diversity Policy Office. Analyses
of the appointment figures showed that there was a lack of female candidates. The Mainstreaming
Promoters of the Faculty of Science decided to make it a point of action for the next academic
year to create some portraits of female scientists on their website as role-models for their female
post-doctoral researchers.
4. Instrument and case study
The ‘Career management’ module of the K.U.Leuven aimed at developing new tools
and/or optimize existing tools concerning equal opportunities and career management. As
described in the Process report, the K.U.Leuven was used as a case study to develop and
optimize such tools.
This part will describe the tools and the correct way of using them.
4.1. Tool: mapping career and promotion opportunities
For this tool: see Tool Annex.
In the Process report we started out from the Instrumental model to integrate the Gender
Mainstreaming concept in career management. A new simple model was drawn up (see
tool: Mapping career and promotion opportunities) to show how the module was developed
along the way and what methods can be used to map the career opportunities of
the personnel.
4.1.1. Identify possible gender issues
First, we needed to show if a gender problem existed for the different statutes (ZAP,
ABAP, ATP): quantitative analyses were performed on the data of the official annual
reports of the university. Scissor diagrams clearly showed whether or not there was a
gender problem. If not, no further research would be needed.
187 K.U.Leuven, Centrum voor Gelijke Kansenbeleid (2004), op. cit.