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Institutional Change for Gender Equality in Research

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Preparation and Implementation Stages of Gender Equality Plan at Information Science and Technology Organization

Lithuanian Case

Daina Gudoniene    Informatics Faculty at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania    

Danguole Rutkauskiene    Informatics Faculty at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania    

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Gender inequality in technological sciences is a problem, which discussed louder than ever. The number of women and men working in the technology sector still struggles to reach equality. The same applies to technological faculties of universities, as women often undertake roles, which include administrative work mostly. This case provides an analysis of the situation at the Kaunas University of Technology (KTU). In Lithuania, the distribution between men and women studying in the field of ICT is similar to the global trend. A big gap can be observed between boys and girls studying in the field of ICT and engineering. During the EQUAL-IST project implementation period, many positive structural changes implemented in the University not only in the faculty level but in the institutional level as well. The study illustrates the preparation and implementation stages of the KTU Gender Equality Plan.

Published
Dec. 17, 2019
Language
EN
ISBN (PRINT)
978-88-6969-335-9
ISBN (EBOOK)
978-88-6969-334-2

Keywords: Equality • STEM • Research • Inequality • Gender Gap

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-334-2/006

Copyright: © 2019 Daina Gudoniene, Danguole Rutkauskiene. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.