Office for Gender Equality and Equal Opportunity

TU Graz
Graz University of Technology

Highlighting and facilitating diversity, promoting equal opportunities for women and men, encouraging girls and women to develop a passion for technology and the natural sciences, focussing on the compatibility of partnerships, family, career and studying – these topics might seem very different, but they have one thing in common. TU Graz takes these socio-political aims seriously and creates the necessary structures to make them a reality.

The Office for Gender Equality and Equal Opportunity supports the Rectorate in implementing these socio-political aims.

Colleagues in the office

focus on the many different life plans and life phases as well as on possible barriers that may occur in university life due to these differences.
initiate processes at TU Graz that help to recognise and make use of the potential that manifests itself in individual differences such as age, religion or belief, ethnic origion etc.
encourage young people to develop a passion for technology and the natural sciences - regardless of traditional roles.
provide a contact point, service centre and advice centre.

Daniela Mrazek, contribution to the contest Vielfalt in Bildern, category Vielfalt

Team Gleichstellung und Frauenförderung an der TU Graz, Bildquelle: Fotogenia

Contact

Office for Gender Equality and Equal Opportunity
Mandellstraße 5/I
8010 Graz
Phone: +43 316 873 6092

Team and areas of responsibility

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Legal Bases

Universities act 2002:
All Austrian universities have the legal obligation to implement measures to promote equal opportunities and gender equality.
The Action Plan for the Advancement of Women (in German: Frauenförderungsplan) contains measures that aim to ensure that the university employs an equal number of men and women and that resources and tasks are shared equally.
The TU Graz Affirmative Action Plan (in German: Gleichstellungsplan) contains measures to promote equal rights, balancing work and family life, and to counteract discrimination.

Tasks of the Office for Gender Equality and Equal Opportunity

Development of measures to promote equal rights and the advancement of women in cooperation with the Rectorate, the Working Group for Equal Opportunities and further interest groups
Coordination of the implementation of equal rights, the advancement of women and gender research in cooperation with the Working Group for Equal Opportunities
Undertaking of strategic projects focussing on diversity management and gender mainstreaming. Examples:

Checklist for research design that takes diversity into account
Development of terms related to diversity, connected with a student competition for visual design
Development of a guideline on gender sensitive language use
Involvement in development of gender controlling
Introduction of a Service Point for Accessible Learning