Academic workforce and careers · Germany
HRK and CEWS project on gender equity in professorial appointments enters survey phase
A joint project by the German Rectors' Conference and CEWS that examines equality measures in professorial appointment procedures moves into intensive data collection this winter semester.
The Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (HRK, German Rectors' Conference) and the Center für Geschlechterverhältnisse in der Wissenschaft (CEWS) jointly run a new project, MAGiB, on monitoring and analysing equality measures in the context of appointment procedures, according to the HRK.
The HRK said the project aims to bring greater gender equity to the filling of professorships at German higher education institutions.
According to the HRK, the project began in July and enters an intensive data-collection phase in the winter semester, intended to systematically examine the current state of institutional equality measures.
Why it matters
The project's stated aim directly concerns how German higher education institutions fill professorships, so its work bears on appointment procedures at those institutions.
Editor’s view
Sarah Williamson, Teaching, Digital and AI Editor
MAGiB is framed as a monitoring and analysis exercise: its declared task is to systematically examine where institutional equality measures in appointment procedures currently stand. That makes the forthcoming data-collection phase the step to follow for anyone responsible for professorial appointments in Germany.
The announcement did not say how data will be gathered, which institutions will be covered, how long the project will run, or whether it will produce recommendations as well as a description of current practice. Until those details emerge, it is not yet clear what the project will mean in practice for individual institutions.
What to watch
- MAGiB's intensive data-collection phase during the winter semester.
- When and in what form MAGiB will publish its findings has not been stated.